Quotes About Hope And Hopelessness

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

Mason Cooley

#2. A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.

Ram Dass

#3. At times it may feel hopeless. That life is unforgiving. Breathe. In the hopelessness of life, we find hope and promise. We find strength.

Tania Elizabeth

#4. Hope as evidence of life. Life as evidence of death.

Lara Biyuts

#5. 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

#6. He was flooded with power - power like pain. When it rises beyond any possible point of pleasure - like victory. Like defeat, like hopelessness and hope. And he stayed there, for an eternity, balanced between all and nothing.
Like love when love is too much to bear.' - The Red Knight

Miles Cameron

#7. 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

#8. People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

Geoffrey Canada

#9. Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness.

Amit Ray

#10. 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

#11. What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is) ... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Well, and what was there in that?
Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig?

Anne Bronte

#14. Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

Yevgeny Baratynsky

#15. She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?

Sage Steadman

#16. Survival was a breeze that touched some and not others. Neither hope nor hopelessness had anything to do with it.

Denis Johnson

#17. Breathe in, breathe out. Over and over again.
Just to prove a broken heart can't really kill you.

Kelley York

#18. The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

Robert Cormier

#19. When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

Paula Deen

#20. Elizabeth's barreness and advanced age
a double symbol of hopelessness
became the means by which God would announce to the world that nothing is impossible for Him.

Charles R. Swindoll

#21. The secret is just to not give up hope. It's very hard not to, because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. And you just have to hang in through that." ~ George Lucas

Vanessa Moore

#22. 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

#23. I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit.

Steve Goodier

#24. Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#25. The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. I threw my hands in the air and said show me something.
He said, "if you dare come a little closer".

Rihanna

#27. When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#28. I want to encourage you by letting you know that there's hope for you and your situation whatever you are dealing with. God is intimately involved with every detail of your future and His desire is for you to be an overcomer.

Sue Augustine

#29. It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am. And my goal is that at those most precarious of moments, what you will see is Jesus holding you through my tears.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. In the healing ways of women that remained mysterious to [him] even as he watched them do their work, tears were followed by reminiscences that brought a smile and soothed, and hope was always found to be the flower that bloomed from every seed of hopelessness.

Dean Koontz

#31. 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

#32. Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

Robert Breault

#33. A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

Albert Camus

#34. Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

Naomi Benaron

#35. When miracles happen, hope destroys hopelessness, joy overcomes pain, love conquers hate, and faith finds God in the midst of it all.

Cherie Hill

#36. Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Laini Taylor

#37. Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles.

One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and heal.

One cannot live without the other, each is the other's hope, meaning & strength.

Gemma B. Benton

#38. if I don't fight, I'm dead for sure. And I'd rather fight and feel hope than succumb to hopelessness.

Ella Summers

#39. 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

#40. When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation.

O. Carl Simonton

#41. [A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.

Christine De Pizan

#42. If you're having trouble counting your blessings, remember that you are alive to count them.

Charles F. Glassman

#43. We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the hands of our scientists.

James Nesbitt

#44. Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness!

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#45. An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#46. Hope was always creating pleasantly ideological, and therefore impossible things.

Sean DeLauder

#47. The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure."
"So what, it's stupid to even try?"
"No. It's unwise to hope."
- Something Like Stardust

Genevieve Ross

#48. Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine.

Anthony Liccione

#49. 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

#50. 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

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

Pawan Mishra

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#53. 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

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

Randolph Randy Camp

#55. There may be a day when you find yourself standing at the precipice, looking down into the abyss of hopelessness and waiting, pleading, begging for someone who has been in this place before to come alongside you and show you the way back to hope.

J. Loren Norris

#56. In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw "the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply "space.

Peter Kreeft

#57. At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.

Jeff Lindsay

#58. Our thoughts and desires are based in hope, but our behaviors are based in fear. This misalignment often causes a feeling of hopelessness and continues the cycle of feeding outdated ideologies and Guru genres offering gimmicks to anesthetize the pain.

Steve Maraboli

#59. There is beauty outside of beauty and there is hope within hopelessness.

Jeff Brown

#60. God calls us to have the strength to trust Him over our hopelessness and to let Him give us the strength to overcome what it is that we feel hopeless to.

Jeff Andras

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.

Jack Vance