411 Quotes About Hopelessness

[She] saw suddenly how hope could break you. How it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst? Was it better not to hope at all? To prepare?

You are never alone. Spirit always has your back, even in those desperate moments when everything seems hopeless.

Habit, not hope, is the last thing to go.

No matter how hard I tried, my legs had turned to stone and night fell upon me that instant. No stars were out. No moon, just blackness...

To mourn the unexpected death Of a thousand fetuses, I fire up the yellow dusk, and watch the time standing motionless.

Maybe you’re thinking that my knowing Bao is already on his way back to me should be comforting me. It isn’t. Although I know it, I don’t believe it. How can I believe it? Other people don’t believe it. Other people think I’ve totally lost it. Maybe they’re right. I’m a mess.

Hopelessness clamps into the soul like the claws of a tiger into its prey.

A terrible thing happens when you water-ski. After you release the rope, you keep skimming over the water for a while, free. But there comes an inevitable moment when your speed fails to sustain your forward progress. The surface of the water breaks like glass. The depths open up to claim you. That was how I felt on land, watching the Object ski past. That same plunging, hopeless feeling, that emotional physics.

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