Hopelessness Quotes

There's nothing in this world can make me joy.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.

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

Despair and die. The ghosts

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.

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.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!