411 Quotes About Hopelessness

There are far too many silent sufferers.  Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.

One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.