Quotes about Hopelessness

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.
And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

Whoever is without hope, dulled, without spirit,

Wow, he said. Now you've said it. The hopeless emptiness. Hell, plenty of people are on to the emptiness part; out where I used to work, on the Coast, that's all we ever talked about. We'd sit around talking about emptiness all night. Nobody ever said 'hopeless', though; that's where we'd chicken out. Because maybe it does take a certain amount of guts to see the emptiness, but it takes a whole hell of a lot more to see the hopelessness. And I guess when you do see the hopelessness, that's where there's nothing to do but take off. If you can.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

You have a hollowed out heart, but it's heavy in your chest I try so hard to fight it, but it's hopeless You're hopeless.

Hell is that state where one has ceased to hope.

Hopelessness is the root of anxiety, mental illness, and depression. It is the source of all misery and the cause of all addiction.

I am in the void. Nothing to hang on to.

A world with no place for God is dark, empty without hope.

Hopelessness means renunciation of all hopes. Aimlessness means renunciation of all aims. Helplessness means renunciation of all help. No master, no disciple, means renunciation of spirituality. And the New Life I have in mind eventually means absolute renunciation. Therefore, if any one asks you what this New Life is, say, 'Absolute and perfect renunciation.' If they ask, 'Renunciation of what?' say, 'Of everything — aims, hopes, help and life itself.

the failure of hope has a name: it is called suffering.

No more to say, and nothing to weep for but the Beings in the Dream, trapped in its disappearance,

We’re left without a chance, ignorant and remorseful among the ruins of our ambitions.

Some people never have any luck. All at once, as though a thick veil had been whisked aside, he clearly saw the wretchedness — the bottomless, monotonous wretchedness — of his existence. The wretchedness which had been, which was, and which was yet to come. His last days indistinguishable from the first, with nothing ahead of him or behind him or around him, nothing in his heart, nothing anywhere.

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