Top 100 Quotes About Hopeless Life
#1. What good news regularly does, then, is to put a new event into an old story, point to a wonderful future hitherto out of reach, and so introduce a new period in which, instead of living a hopeless life, people are now waiting with excitement for what they know is on the way.
N. T. Wright
#2. It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.
Nick Hornby
#3. All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.
Ian McKellen
#4. I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.
Mabel Cheung
#5. Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.
A.J. Darkholme
#6. I didn't want to let you down, Sky. I've let everyone down in my life that's ever loved me, and after that day at lunch I knew I let you down, too. So ... I left you before you could start loving me. Otherwise, any effort to try not to disappoint you would be hopeless.
Colleen Hoover
#8. No matter how hopeless you feel, strive to find the one thing that makes you feel alive and pull yourself to the light at the end of the tunnel. There is hope. Trust me.
Tammy-Louise Wilkins
#9. If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.
Rick Warren
#10. And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into.
Nick Hornby
#11. Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that? ... And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
Andre Gide
#12. Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.
Matthew Scully
#13. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
Oscar Wilde
#14. Love wasn't something you decided. It was thrust upon you at the most inopportune times in your life. You didn't choose when or who to love, love chose you.
Holly Hood
#15. And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.
Rachel Ward
#16. It seemed so hopeless, so impossible that a life could rest on such a small thing (the human heart).
Brenna Yovanoff
#17. Time spent worrying - about anything - provides no emotional or physical benefit to us; such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.
A.J. Darkholme
#18. My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless romantic obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?
Donna Tartt
#19. Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.
Terry Pratchett
#20. I guess I'm a hopeless case. No matter how much I try, his existence won't budge out of my mind. The only thing left for me to do is to focus on becoming a career woman, stay single for the rest of my life and go to my grave clutching a photo of his in my hand.
Kaoru Tada
#21. All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless
Rachel Cohn
#22. She promised him she would love him until she was physically unable to anymore and then after when all she could do was hold his photograph.
Holly Hood
#23. Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my grip on that, and perhaps life both in the asylum and out becomes much easier ...
Emilie Autumn
#24. The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
V.S. Pritchett
#25. The entirety of his life to this point had merely been to prepare him for what he was to do next: bring hope to the hopeless and joy to the joyless. He would serve mankind by reminding them every year that a King had been born who had died for thier sins.
Glenn Beck
#26. Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality.
Steve Maraboli
#27. As we survey the challenges of life, that which is easy is rarely right. In fact, the course that we should properly follow appears at times impossible, impenetrable, hopeless.
Thomas S. Monson
#28. It was not a conspiratorial wink, nor did Hornblower attempt the hopeless task of trying to pretend he stuffed hot greasy sausages into his pockets every day of his life; the wink simply dared the old gentleman to comment on or even think of the remarkable act.
C.S. Forester
#29. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#30. You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly. Ci vedremo lassu, angelo.
Timothy Conigrave
#31. I'm just a brother who loved his sister more than life itself.
Colleen Hoover
#32. The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.
Holly Black
#33. He was right. Without God at the center, it is hopeless; it is empty; and it was designed by God to be so. The theme of Ecclesiastes could be stated, Life is supposed to taste like cardboard if you insist on eating the box!
Jim Berg
#34. But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?
Jennifer Niven
#35. Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a
hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond
himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
Viktor E. Frankl
#36. I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like they're at fault for you hurting them ... I realized that was exactly what I'd done to Carly. That hangs over me every day.
Richelle Mead
#37. There's a moment in everybody's life when you're hopeless, just hopeless with hope and trust. And then something happens, something too big to understand, and then everything changes
Will Donner
#38. I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Rachel McAdams
#39. In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
Kurt Vonnegut
#40. Of all things let us avoid the false refuge of a weary collapse, a hopeless yielding to things as they are. It is the life in us that is discontented: we need more of what is discontented, not more of the cause of its discontent.
George MacDonald
#41. If you have ever felt hopeless hang on The night you're enduring may seem long but there is joy coming in the morning. Incredible changes are going to take place in your life as you begin to relinquish your past and renew your present.
Sue Augustine
#42. Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.
Alan Moore
#43. After all, the life itself shows a completely useless, hopeless and indifferent blank face, a deduction of no more than a blank canvas.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
Irving Stone
#44. The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.
Hayao Miyazaki
#45. Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love
Abdu'l- Baha
#46. Maybe it's not about how long you've lived, or having the ability to hope, even when things seem hopeless. Maybe it's just about how much faith you have.
P.C. Cast
#47. I cry even harder, thinking of how it could have been, of how I thought it would be. For the first time, I want to give up, to die, because suddenly everything is too much and there is no solution in sight.
B.A. Paris
#48. I'll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless; the English that life is hopeless but not serious.
Amanda Craig
#49. I'd never get over you regardless of what happened to you. You're not something I want to get over no matter where I am in my life.
Holly Hood
#50. I love that there's no cutoff where we get labeled and sent off to a home for hopeless, cranky, depressives. Every day is a new chance to listen longer and be braver and love more. We get to try again and again and again.
Anna White
#51. Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and comprehend your life directions, making you feel discouraged and hopeless in times of danger
Michael Bassey Johnson
#53. I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change ... or die.
Roy Nelson
#54. It's my mission to share this with the world and to let them know that there is life on the other side of those dark times that seem so hopeless and helpless. I want to show the world that there is life
surprising, wonderful and unexpected life after diagnosis.
Demi Lovato
#55. She didn't need hope anymore because she knew the things you wanted weren't necessarily the things that you needed. She knew that the things that were meant to be just happened. You couldn't control them like she once thought.
Holly Hood
#57. Someone who doesn't know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.
Shannon A. Thompson
#58. Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.
Carl Rogers
#59. During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything.
Leo Tolstoy
#60. But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew.
Fatema Mernissi
#61. I'm gonna go live my life now, Les. A life I'm actually able to look forward to, and I'd honestly thought I'd never be able to say that. Then again, I'd honestly thought I'd always be hopeless, but I find hope every single day.
Colleen Hoover
#62. Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#63. I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that
Paula Hawkins
#64. I understood him. He wanted to die at home. He didn't want to be going someplace all the time for the sake of a hopeless hope. He wanted to die as himself out of his life. He didn't want his death to be the end of a technological process.
Wendell Berry
#65. What a joy walking is. All the cares of life, all the hopeless, inept fuckwits that God has strewn along the Bill Bryson Highway of Life suddenly seem far away and harmless, and the world becomes tranquil and welcoming and good.
Bill Bryson
#66. The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.
Mos Def
#67. So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Gordon W. Allport
#68. With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand ... hopeless from the start.
Sylvia Plath
#69. Would you guys choose to walk away from possibly the most incredible encounter of your lifetime just because you had to let it go sooner then you wanted? Just because you knew that it would never be?
Holly Hood
#70. Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in your life,you can begin to consciously choose your thoughts, and you can change your life.There is no such thing as a hopeless situation.Every single circumstance of your life can change!
Rhonda Byrne
#71. My boy, you are by blood, by appearance, by education, and by tastes a white man. Now, why do you want to throw your life away amidst the poverty and ignorance, in the hopeless struggle, of the black people of the United States?
James Weldon Johnson
#72. The science of yoga saved my life, and I've seen it save many other lives, no matter how dark and hopeless it might feel for someone, there is a pathway forward towards stability and empowerment ... toward creating a new and more meaningful identity and mission in life.
Brad Willis
#73. I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.
Wilkie Collins
#74. Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.
Joyce Meyer
#75. I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.
Tupac Shakur
#76. Sometimes, when people look at me, I can see the pity in their eyes. All I want is hope, but neither of us can give it to each other.
Genesis Quihuis
#77. I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.
Margaret Atwood
#78. All you have to do is to open your mind, do not be too hopeless instead stand with your feets and have faith that all things will be alright.
Abigail Lazo
#79. One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well ... just realistic.
Faraaz Kazi
#80. She is that maze,
the one you would love to chase.
She is the faith,
quite missing nowadays.
And her heart is a rave,
with hopeless barricades.
She is the one,
whose tears flow,
just as lavishly,
as her laughter roars!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#81. Through the gamut of life we struggled for control, for a means to fashion the world around us, an eternal, hopeless hunt for the privilege of being able to predict the shape of our lives.
Steven Erikson
#82. I don't know how this hopeless boy weaseled his way into my life this week, but I know i'm definitely not ready for him to leave.
Colleen Hoover
#83. She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none.
Crystal Woods
#84. We never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think think that we are invincible because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestation.
John Green
#85. As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.
Steven Van Zandt
#86. My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos. It is a hopeless task.
Colin Meloy
#87. Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
Evelyn Waugh
#88. No matter how dark and hopeless a situation may seem, always hold on and never give up your dream.
Mouloud Benzadi
#90. At that moment when you feel like giving up, take a look and search deep inside in oder to understand how far you've come. Don't give up now! Success is right around the corner.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#91. Boundaries have to be continuously sealed off, but it's a hopeless job, for everything touches everything else in this world. A beginning never disappears, not even with an ending.
Harry Mulisch
#92. Life, the dramatist of speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.
Glen Duncan
#93. It's hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who's a stranger to him. But then again, we are all strangers to ourselves, caught up in the monotony of daily life, stuck in our routines, never really stopping to think about what will happen to us if we fall off track.
Shannon Mullen
#94. Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
Randeep Hooda
#95. Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions.
A.H. Septimius
#96. 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
#97. He saw in that instant a life he could not conceive of opening before him, a hopeless abyss. Either way he was doomed: He did what was wrong, and condemned himself, or he did what was right, and remained a ghost.
Andrew Holleran
#98. People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.
Salman Rushdie
#99. With God life is an endless hope. Without God, life is a hopeless end.
Bill Bright
#100. Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.
Viktor E. Frankl
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