Hopelessness quotes

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Mean #Optimism #Hopelessness

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Reflection #Hopeless #Hopelessness

Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger.
-- Daniele Bolelli

#Answers #Hopelessness #Middle Finger

But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.
-- Franz Kafka

#Moving #Air #Hopelessness

Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?
-- Jeremy Clarkson

#Sea #Maelstrom #Hopelessness

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
-- Judah Smith

#Choices #Hopelessness #Traps

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.
-- Jules Shear

#Nice #Trying #Hopelessness

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Relief #Violence #Hopelessness

Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born,
-- Malala Yousafzai

#Weakness #Hopelessness #Born

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley

#Patience #Hopelessness

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Integrity #Violence #Hopelessness

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.
-- Mira Grant

#Mirrors #Mixtures #Hopelessness

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
-- Mort Sahl

#Feelings #Hopelessness #Masters

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.
-- Patti Smith

#Thinking #Generations #Hopelessness

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.
-- Ruta Sepetys

#Swings #Riding #Hopelessness

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
-- Sidney Poitier

#Hopeless #Hopelessness #Domination

Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.
-- Tavis Smiley

#Believe #Struggle #Hopelessness

The rosary is a weapon against depression and hopelessness.
-- Benedict Groeschel

#Rosary #Weapons #Hopelessness