Quotes About Despair And Hopelessness

#1. Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

Benjamin Hooks

#2. Our world today desperately hungers for hope, and yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus!

Billy Graham

#3. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love ...

Mother Teresa

#4. Sleep felt miles away, and he couldn't shake the despair and hopelessness that coursed through his body and mind -

James Dashner

#5. Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

Colin Powell

#6. Better to rest in peace than rot in pieces

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#7. We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire ... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about ... what it means to be a human being.

Ron Pope

#8. Though life shall come to an end one day, don't end life whilst living. So many people end their lives whilst they live before their lives come to a real end! There is always another tomorrow to do something different!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?

Jim Butcher

#10. Mankind is facing a crossroad - one road leads to despair and utter hopelessness and the other to total extinction - I sincerely hope you graduates choose the right road

Woody Allen

#11. What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

Charles M. Blow

#12. I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.

A.B. Shepherd

#13. Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Mason Cooley

#14. More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

#15. A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#16. As you sip your morning coffee ... please say a prayer for the people of Tibet and all other children of humanity that are suffering despair & hopelessness throughout our world.

Timothy Pina

#17. Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

Napoleon Hill

#18. There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

Sam Keen

#19. You've shown me joy where before I saw only despair. You've taught me hope where before I knew only hopelessness. I may be broken, but all my pieces are yours. And I'll work every day of my life to deserve you.

Penny Reid

#20. Allen: "One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." Panic

Stewart Brand

#21. But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.

Melina Marchetta

#22. I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.

Michael Franti

#23. Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!

William Osler

#24. A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

Philip K. Dick

#25. Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

Ann Brashares

#26. Pain can drive you to a sense of hopelessness and despair, or it can drive you to God. It's your choice.

Jan Northington

#27. One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.

William F. Lynch

#28. A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

Ray Bradbury

#29. The hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time.

Pawan Mishra

#30. It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair and stifle the power of discouragement and hopelessness.

David O. McKay

#31. I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs.

Charlotte Bronte

#32. I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Guy De Maupassant

#33. Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#34. Most times and in most circumstances, what hinders real progress is never anything big, but the small things we least regard that impede real thinking and action for progress!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#35. Sometimes I can't see the sun.

Randolph Randy Camp

#36. There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#37. To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it is a trodden turf of grass, and nothing remains of it but this handful of ashes.

Rabindranath Tagore

#38. When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, 'Pray.'
Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

Ellen J. Barrier