411 Quotes About Hopelessness

Despair is a bad thing, friend. The world moves on through hope. We will be home soon. You will feel better then.” But the darkness around him embraced him like stormy waves do a drowning man. He felt he was sinking in the sea of hopelessness.

Hope lies beyond inaction! When inaction ends, hope rises like the sun! Inertia is the enemy of hope!

I suppose that's true for everyone in life - when it rains, it pours. Nothing ever just comes one at a time. But I guess sometimes, at least this one time, when it poured, it wasn't a bad thing!

Heaven is boundless, and the sea is beneath you.

What keeps us stuck and forever languishing in the muck and mire of whatever situation we're in is the utterly convincing but entirely false belief that there's nothing in our situation that we can do other than be stuck. Therefore, what's got us stuck in this mess has nothing to do with our situation, but everything to do with our belief about our situation.

Is your home life more sorrow than joy? This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be. It should be more joy than sorrow. If it is, you know. If it isn’t, you also know. Remember this… God is always with you. This is the bedrock that allows the hopeless to remedy their situation.

Only when the situation is totally hopeless will you learn whether you have a talent to create a hope out of nothingness!

After five years of living in New York City, Larry had completely ruined his life and hit rock bottom. He lost any aspirations of ever regaining what had become so far out of reach. Once hope was abandoned, he really did not have much else left.

I secretly do a pregnancy test every day. It’s always negative. I just want to be sure, seeing as this is the last try. I’m going to do a pregnancy test every single day until my period comes. If I’m still doing tests, I’ve still got something to live for. Still got hope. But it’s the hope that kills you. Every day I torture myself looking at the little window on the white tester stick, waiting and waiting. No blue line.