Top 100 Quotes About Lost Hope
#1. But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many lives and resources. But we who were so intoxicated with our own prosperity have once again planted the seed of hope. So I choose to believe.
Ryu Murakami
#2. 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
#3. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
Pittacus Lore
#4. I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
Alanis Morissette
#5. But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.
Amy Tan
#6. In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.
Farrah Fawcett
#7. Ava was the one who believed in the impossible, not me. When she lost hope, how was I supposed to have any? "You
Aimee Carter
#9. Each of us is born into this life with a light inside us... What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to darkness. It means you've lost hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.
John Searles
#10. I no longer looked to the future or lost hope in it. The past and the future are, from the view of the present, nothing more than a distant paradise. As one who can never achieve divinity, all I could do is ponder that with all of my might.
Kinoko Nasu
#11. For until ye become as a savior, as a help to some soul that has lost hope, lost its way, ye do not fully comprehend the god within, the god without.
Edgar Cayce
#12. Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.
Alice Hoffman
#13. A strong heart can overcome sickness but those who lost hope can't.
Auliq Ice
#14. Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.
Anne Lamott
#15. A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.
Rachel Simon
#16. Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.
Angela Merkel
#17. Don't give up on hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope ~Henri - I am number four
Pittacus Lore
#18. Hope - meaning when everything goes wrong and you are all but lost. Hope brings you back up on your feet and gives you the strength to charge forward.
Melina Turner
#19. But now there were ten bells. And the bell for Lost-Hope was ringing violently.
Susanna Clarke
#20. Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.
Orhan Pamuk
#21. Perhaps, with enough time in these walls, one could become resigned to things never getting better, or even changing all that much. Or maybe a person eventually lost hope that there was anything worth preserving at all.
Hugh Howey
#22. The prison was a shiver running up the spine of the shadowed background. The shiver running up Isabel's spine was only a piece of the haunted, crawling darkness before her. This prison, this disturbed place of long-lost hope, was the place she'd been looking for.
-Isabel, by E. L. Schoeman
E.L. Schoeman
#23. After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.
Cathy Guisewite
#24. If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
Eric Bentley
#25. Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced;
John Green
#26. When he actually comes, he brings her a book containing white paper, as if it were a sign of her salvation, and she reads a dedication
something about people who have lost hope but start to swim in the whiteness of these leaves and perhaps find a new beginning with their first pen stroke.
Unica Zurn
#27. Amy! Never underestimate the rare tears of man..because that's always a sign that he has lost hope,out of options and more dangerously has nothing to lose ...
Sherif A. El-Mawardy
#28. If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change candidate, this is one documentary you won't want to miss.
Jedediah Bila
#29. When people lost hope, they looked in the last place they remembered having it, and it was always in the past. Maybe someday they'd stop looking to the past to find their hope and start looking at one another, where hope really lived.
Tiffany Reisz
#30. One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide ... gather, fall, slide ... each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.
Lisi Harrison
#31. Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don't worry; even if you can't find it, a new hope will come and find you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. Somewhere in that hour I lost all relation to a middle ground, and I didn't regain it for what became a very long time. In
Hope Edelman
#33. We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".
Francis Bacon
#34. Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc - where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.
Amanda Ripley
#35. How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.
Julian Barnes
#36. What is most important is the deeply felt conviction that freedom is like oxygen, and I hope The Long Walk is a reminder that when lost, freedom is difficult to regain.
Slavomir Rawicz
#37. He describes poignantly the prisoners who gave up on life, who had lost all hope for a future and were inevitably the first to die.
Viktor E. Frankl
#38. Our deep longings remind us we have lost something vital and precious. Such yearnings are the stirring of hope. Of returning." "Returning where?" "To this garden.
William Paul Young
#40. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?
Brent Jones
#41. When all hope seems lost and your life's in disarray, just call on your Angel, who will light your way!
Raphaelle Peale
#43. There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.
A.J. Darkholme
#44. Beauty is the wilderness of sensual perception where we always want to get lost.
Debasish Mridha
#45. The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#46. I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
Thomas Jefferson
#47. The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#48. This is a book about lost faith and blaming God when He allows bad things to happen to good people. But, it is also about the wounds we carry around with us when we fail to make a diiference when a difference was needed, whether real or perceived. But there is hope for us all! We are NOT alone!
Norman Whaler
#49. You're lost, broken, and completely fucked up. You're not like me, but you want to be. The difference between us is that I still have hope and you lost yours a long time ago.
H.M. Ward
#50. I know you lost your way, but remember love is the only freeway of life.
Debasish Mridha
#52. That's the thing about love, you have to get lost to find someone you can trust.
Debasish Mridha
#53. What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope Of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy, Save what is in destroying, other joy To me is lost. Then
John Milton
#54. Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.
Theodore Kaczynski
#55. He spared a moment to hope that Edmund Herondale would find comfort in the arms of his beautiful mundane love, that he would live a life that made all he had lost and all he had suffered seem worthwhile.
Cassandra Clare
#56. There's a fearsome creature that no man can ever hope to vanquish: the neurotic Bridezilla.
Loretta Lost
#57. Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.
George W. Bush
#58. There are times God puts things in our lives that remind us of the past, so that we know ... not all is as lost as we thought it was.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#59. I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me
and I think for all of us
not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.
Thomas Wolfe
#60. Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.
Suzanne Palmieri
#61. Nd where a neighbour bakes hummingbird cakes in the hope of bringing back a lost love.
Sarah Addison Allen
#62. I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I shall hope to write an epic called 'Paradox Lost'.
G.K. Chesterton
#63. When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love.
Debasish Mridha
#64. When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#65. I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.
Joseph Conrad
#66. Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there's music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.
Jack Gilbert
#67. It gave him hope - hope that he had not lost his soul in the act of killing, hope that humanity could still be found, and honor could be regained ...
Sarah J. Maas
#68. I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
George Bernard Shaw
#69. Like the kite that caught up to the sky,
painted with clouds, I lost track of it,
but it was connected
by string, something I was holding,
something I could always
bring back.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#70. Some people are crazy in love. They are so captivated to where they've lost themselves. Do not be lured in so deep that you lose the essence of who you truly are.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#72. He had been willing to hold on to hope even when it looked like all hope was lost. She owed him no less.
Teresa Medeiros
#73. In order to welcome redemption, one must first embrace the utter hopelessness of failure. For how can a man look for rescue unless he knows he is truly lost?
Stephen R. Lawhead
#74. I am trying to get lost in me.
To dream, to feel, to see, to be.
Debasish Mridha
#75. I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.
Ellen Page
#76. Being lost isn't the same as being nowhere. Being lost is worse because there's the false hope that you might be found.
Paul Tremblay
#77. Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.
Dean Koontz
#78. Amazingly, if God calls us to do something, He will help us accomplish it. We may doubt or we may simply believe. God chooses us for a particular reason. He is STRETCHING us from the inside out ... to reach the lost, to provide hope, to be like Jesus on earth.
Dana Arcuri
#79. Ceony shook her head. "No. Except I lost your glider. That's how I got to the barn."
"Hmm," he replied, nodding. "I hope you closed the roof."
She hadn't.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#80. I have not lost [Allah's] hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example
Muhammad Ali
#81. By the time you've figured out how the world works, you've already lost about everything you've hope to keep.
Paul Pope
#82. She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother's touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the tiniest bit of hope would return.
Patrick Carman
#83. I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors.
There is so much aspiration in them,
so much audacious hope and trembling fear,
so much of the heart's history, that all errors
and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of
in the amiable self assertion of youth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#84. An author's job isn't to just write books, but to give hope and inspiration to the lost.
Rowan K. Lake Jr.
#85. I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.
Melissa Bank
#86. Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.
Roberto Bolano
#87. Jude is my favorite of all the saints," he says. "Patron saint of lost causes. The saint to call on when all hope is gone. The one in charge of miracles.
Jandy Nelson
#88. Tell me what's the difference
between hope and waiting
because my heart doesn't know
It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting
It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope
Anna Kamienska
#89. Therefore you can never lose hope-hatikva-because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.
Cassandra Clare
#90. No,'he said.'I was a Strigoi. I was one of them. I did ... terrible things.' The words were mild, but the tone of his voice spoke legions. The radiant faces of his family turned sober.'I was lost. Beyond hope. Except ... Rose believed in me. Rose never gave up.
Richelle Mead
#91. But that's just it; I can either focus on what I have lost, or what I have gained, and I choose the latter.
Angie Smith
#92. And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them. We didn't know that in America after the war, you wouldn't be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.
Bob Hope
#93. We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.
Cecelia Ahern
#94. Indeed. That pony collection isn't nearly complete," Carter mused. When I dared a look back at him, I saw that the angel was smiling at me. "You see? You aren't lost. No matter what happens to you, you have a plan. There's still hope.
Richelle Mead
#95. When you think lost all hopes, Never worry yet, because,end of hope opens door to new.
Sadashivan Nair
#96. Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.
David Levithan
#97. The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her. Faith, Hope and Brenda.
Jonathan Coe
#98. I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.
Dave Eggers
#99. It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#100. If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.
Dorothy Allison
