"Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything."
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22 quotes about hopelessness
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hopelessness Quotes
"Stop counting your losses and start counting your blessings. Only then will you discover that losses are always easier to point out and count than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber your losses, for they are truly immeasurable."
"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."
"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?"
"[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light."
"You can break a man with hope."
"I threw my hands in the air and said show me something.He said, "if you dare come a little closer"."
"Even in the grave, all is not lost."
"God can inject hope into a absolutely hopeless situation."
"Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding."
"Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless."
"Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world."
"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."
"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."
"When things go wrong, don't go with them."
"A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future."
"Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."
"I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots"
"Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair."
"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."