Quotes About Desperation And Hope

#1. I knew that she couldn't hear me if she was there. But the sound was enough to grab me, to hold me to hope, and with desperation that I'd never known before I knew that I must find my way back to her.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#2. If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.

David Mitchell

#3. There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

Elizabeth Bowen

#4. Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. Desperation is energized despair, and despair is the abandonment of hope.

Dean Koontz

#6. What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

Junot Diaz

#7. We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked - like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go.

Pawan Mishra

#8. Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.

Arthur Kleinman

#9. Hope is really just desire disguised, just desperation, aching, dressed up like a prayer.

T. Greenwood

#10. Desperation is often more powerful than inspiration.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Marena looked at all of them out of her big, calm, shining eyes. "Love is no nonsense," she said. "It has to come.

Felix Salten

#12. Hope is determination, you think. Hope is desperation. Hope is a yearning you can't deny. And hope is just plain old-fashioned insanity.

Hal Duncan

#13. He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.

Sarah Winter

#14. the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria - at least for the time being. The Syrian opposition felt betrayed and abandoned. Worse, Syrians were now completely without hope, which is the most dangerous human condition. A man or woman with no hope is capable of anything.

Richard Engel

#15. And here's to the blues, the real blues - where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

David Mutti Clark

#16. In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what's there, and not angry for what's not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go. Let it go

Linkin Park

#18. Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever.

Martin Luther

#19. She looked at them, at the three males who meant everything - more than everything. Then she smiled with every last shred of courage, of desperation, of hope for the glimmer of that glorious future. Let's go rattle the stars.

Sarah J. Maas

#20. You scream it in everything you do. You're holding on to what happened because you think that's all you have."
"It is all I have."
"Find more

Jessica Park

#21. But desperation does funny things to a person. Makes you grasp for any sliver of hope. Makes you throw rational thought and logic out the window. Makes you act in ways you would never have imagined possible. Turns strong men into weak. Honest men into liars.

Siobhan Davis

#22. Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#23. I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it before-the desperation, the agony, the need to find a reason to go on, and the inability to find it.

Mary Beth Miller

#24. How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Laini Taylor

#25. Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

William S. Burroughs

#26. When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Theodore Roosevelt

#27. I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

Harry Nilsson

#28. The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Rose Macaulay

#29. This isn't hope, I thought. It's madness. It's hunger, need, desperation.

Leigh Bardugo

#30. One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the "ultimate weapon," and only hope that those who seek a more free and just world will not gain the same understanding and put it effectively to use.

Noam Chomsky

#31. It felt somehow comforting to return to the sparkling lake tucked into the mountains on Portal Prime. But why, when everything about Mesme made her the antithesis of comfortable?

Because here was where desperation had become hope. Where helplessness had become purpose.

G.S. Jennsen

#32. I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

Oprah Winfrey

#33. We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.

Craig D. Lounsbrough