Top 100 Quotes About Loss Of Hope
#1. Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#2. For some parents of children with horizontal identities, acceptance reaches its apogee when parents conclude that while they supposed they were pinioned by a great and catastrophic loss of hope, they were in fact falling in love with someone they didn't yet know enough to want.
Andrew Solomon
#5. Despair is of course the loss of hope.
Anonymous
#6. Believe me, the loss of hope is far worse than the loss of limbs.
Nick Vujicic
#7. One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs.
Ibn Ata Allah
#8. But then, as Myrina knew only too well, it is the loss of hope that kills the prey
the loss of will to keep struggling.
Anne Fortier
#9. 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
#11. What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?
Rachel L. Schade
#12. Love for the beauty of the soul.
I shall love you always.
When the flower of life has gone,
ever I shall find you.
When all is lost and winter comes,
I shall be your spring time.
And memory fades and wilts then,
I shall always find you ...
I shall always find you ...
Laurel A. Rockefeller
#13. I know now, just quite how
My life and love might still go on
In your heart, in your mind
I'll stay with you for all of time.
The Calling
#14. This book is written in
a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.
Phindiwe Nkosi
#15. She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
Patricia Briggs
#16. Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements.
Elizabeth Berrien
#18. The intense roller coaster of emotions will gradually lesson over time. But there is no timeframe for the grieving process, and it will not be rushed, no matter how fast you'd like to "get over it." The reality is that there is no getting over it; you can only walk through it.
Elizabeth Berrien
#19. You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.
Hope Solo
#20. They spoke of age and decay. Of atrophy and ruin. Of the inevitability of loss and the futility of hope.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#21. For all the loss and tragedy I have known, my life has taught me that the human spirit like the lifted hands of the blind, will rise above chaos and destruction, as wings in flight
Vaddey Ratner
#22. Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious; holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#23. 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
#24. If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Subhash Kak
#25. In the dim light of today are the shadows of yesterday's affliction and the hope of tomorrow's gifts.
Ariana Carruth
#26. Daddy
and it contained within it the prospect of living and the hope of dying, of endings and beginnings, of love and loss and peace and rage, all wrapped up in two whispered syllables.
John Connolly
#27. I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world.
Elizabeth Berrien
#28. A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding ... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.
C.J. Cherryh
#29. When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
Thomas Carlyle
#30. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
Jose N. Harris
#31. We weren't that different after all, our souls laden with the same ache of loss, our hearts bursting with the same longing to save what remained of all we loved.
Rachel L. Schade
#32. I began to recognize that there was a part of me that was stronger than I ever could have imagined. I didn't know how I was still standing. I surprised myself. I was waking up to the fact that I was in charge of my own life and it was my choice whether to sink or float.
Elizabeth Berrien
#33. It was all he'd felt for too long to change now. Maybe it was too late for any other kind of life. This was all he knew. It was safe, insulated. Familiar. An absense of emotion kept him sane. Or what passed for it.
Virginia Brown
#34. In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence - wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.
Seth Adam Smith
#35. We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#36. When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become Master of the Self. A gradual process, this is often tied to loss and to love.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#37. Each loss brings growth with it, and learning to handle new experiences and taking charge of your needs is part of the transformative process.
Elizabeth Berrien
#38. Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you're okay. But my life was over.
Caroline Flohr
#39. Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.
Nelson Mandela
#40. A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you've lost everything, there is hope.
Geraldine Solon
#41. I used to feel afraid of the future, always assuming the worst. But now I've realized that my worst fears have already happened, and I've survived them! I've walked into the fire and made it out alive. Only the loss of a close loved one could have "woken me up" to reality in the same way.
Elizabeth Berrien
#42. It is okay to release your feelings when you feel the waves coming. It's all part of the process of having to let go of your relationship with your loved one as you once knew it. And remember, letting go is not the same thing as forgetting!
Elizabeth Berrien
#43. Everything had life to me,' he heard Enkidu murmur, 'the sky, the storm, the earth, water, wandering, the moon and its three children, salt, even my hand had life. It's gone. It's gone.
Herbert Mason
#44. To the world, it doesn't matter that much. Until you remember that it means the world to the patient. One exact world, bright and full of sounds, per person. That is what is lost.
James Maskalyk
#45. Wins and losses right now are important, but in reality it's the least of my concerns. My concern is to make sure than we give hope to anyone watching us. I am not going to judge this season on wins and losses.
Chris Scelfo
#46. As long as you could fall farther you distinguished yourself from the fallen. Loss reinstated possibility, but possibility without hope. And perhaps this explains how all of us blithely
Charles D'Ambrosio
#47. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
Haruki Murakami
#48. Making a film is like raising a child. You have to be there every step of the way, guide it, provide for it, and finally let it go into the real world and hope you have done a good job. If you don't absolutely love your film then you will loss interest in it and the movie will suffer.
Nicholas Ozeki
#49. You were standing in the wake of devastation
And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
And with the cataclysm raining down
Insides crying "Save me now"
You were there, impossibly alone
Linkin Park
#50. I would still rather feel things and live life to the fullest rather than hide in a cave and attempt to protect myself from the uncertainties of the world.
Elizabeth Berrien
#53. Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Democritus
#54. Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs and your child's. You become stronger by remaining aware of your own well-being, which in turn makes you a stronger person for your child or children.
Elizabeth Berrien
#55. A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.
Anosh Irani
#56. Dov Frohman, the founder of Intel Israel, later said that to create a true culture of innovation, "fear of loss often proves more powerful than the hope of gain.
Dan Senor
#57. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.
Rebecca McNutt
#58. This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with'disease'. They know how to attach a doctor's medical descriptions to hope.
Amy Reed
#59. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.
Rachel L. Schade
#60. Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards
#61. The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
Lech Walesa
#62. Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn't just sad and slow music. It's a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the rising sun.
Dave Matthes
#63. Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a born poet, and a born writer. The Canoe is just the start of what I hope to be a long idyllic journey through the love and soul of the human heart.
Trent Zelazny
#64. The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior
Kenneth E. Boulding
#65. Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#66. She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.
Philip Zaleski
#67. Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.
Karen Quan
#68. Begin with loss and see
how the world contradicts you,
how the horizon implies that beyond it
the water is not empty
but full of ships
all docking at another island.
Lynn Emanuel
#69. To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought ... ?
Roland Barthes
#70. You have filled every fibre of my soul and the spaces in between
Zahraa Arif
#71. Learning to live again wholeheartedly includes letting love flow freely in and out of your heart.
Elizabeth Berrien
#73. You never can lose anything without gaining something. So forget the fear of loss and concentrate on the beauty of gain.
Debasish Mridha
#74. Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning as you go.
Elizabeth Berrien
#75. God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.
Karen Kingsbury
#76. They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
John Pearson
#77. When joy is LOST, hope can easily FIND it ... It's only your HOPE, that knows the where about of your JOY! If you lose hope you lose everything!
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.
Katherine Paterson
#80. See, you've got to understand, son. There's two types of guys in this world. There's guys . . . who think they're in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.
Brent Jones
#81. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief
Jojo Moyes
#82. My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
Ted Dekker
#83. I have become conscious of my own "cry face." My face puckers like the business end of a hot dog except for my mouth, which stretches in a grimace so wide as to accommodate said hotdog horizontally within it. It's not pretty.
Kelly Wilson
#84. Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
Gail Caldwell
#85. I think loss isolates a person. Everybody is far too nervous to ask you how you feel, in case you have a breakdown in front of them. It's much easier not to say anything and hope the pain goes away quickly and quietly.
Victoria Connelly
#86. How do you recover from an extraordinary loss? Take stock of the loved ones around you. Hug them, love them, and cherish them. When you appreciate the joys in your life, it makes sorrow that much easier to swallow. Every day is a new day. Hope floats, so let it rise. God is love.
Joseph Simmons
#87. To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
David Mamet
#88. There is nothing like feeling truly "awake" and aware of my life and what it means to me. So I look ahead and think, "There is still so much to be done, and I will continue to make the most of it.
Elizabeth Berrien
#89. Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more repressive.
Azar Nafisi
#90. Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.
Ash Parsons
#91. He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel.
Brenda Perlin
#92. I don't have any first times left ... I hope that's OK.
Jay Bell
#93. My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
Judy Collins
#94. Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer's growth in grace.
Arthur W. Pink
#95. There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachments altogether, than lose one more thing.
N.K. Jemisin
#96. I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.
Donna Lynn Hope
#97. The world is made of more than particles. It's made of things you can't hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth.
Jaclyn Moriarty
#98. Sorrowful tears drench the earth, rise again in the form of hope
Connie Jordan
#99. We will remember what it was like to lose you, our pain the black background of our electric blue joy. We will remember that there are few answers to our questions; the questions that seem to float into an endless expanse of sky.
Kelly Wilson
#100. even in a world of pain and ugliness, cruelty and loss, there are still amazing things to cling to, to tell us not to give up, not to lose hope, and continue on to another day. There is life in death, always.
Lindy Zart
