Welcome to Hopeless Quotes, a collection of poignant and introspective reflections on the nature of hopelessness. In life, we often encounter moments of despair, where optimism seems out of reach and the weight of uncertainty looms heavy. Yet, within these moments lie profound insights and a shared human experience that transcends individual circumstances. Whether grappling with personal challenges, societal upheavals, or existential questions, the sentiments expressed in these quotes offer solace and understanding to those navigating the labyrinth of hopelessness.
Within these pages, you will find a curated selection of quotes that encapsulate the essence of hopelessness in its various forms. From the eloquent words of philosophers and poets to the raw expressions of ordinary individuals, each quote serves as a beacon of truth amidst the darkness. Whether you seek solace, empathy, or simply a moment of reflection, may these words resonate with you on your journey through the depths of despair. Explore, ponder, and find solace in the shared human experience of hopelessness.
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus
Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I’m not a hopeless romantic. Randeep Hooda
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. Gordon W. Allport
Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. Henry Rollins
I used to be a hopeless romantic – I fell in love with everyone I went out with. Jeremy London
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you’re subjected to. My God. Kate Millett
I’m a hopeless romantic. CM Punk
My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there’d be loads of women and drinking! Christopher Eccleston
I’m not gifted, but I’m not hopeless. Norman Spinrad
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. Bill Ayers
I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‘What should I do?’ And I say: ‘Act. Do something.’ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression. Greta Thunburg
I am a hopeless pantser, so I don’t do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I’ll just throw it into the story. I tell myself I’ll worry about untangling it later. I’m glad no one sees my first drafts except for my poor editor and agent. Marie Lu
I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions. Alastair Campbell
I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect. Maggie Smith
I’m a hopeless romantic, of course. The-Dream
Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression ‘like an apothecary without sugar’ meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation. Tom Reiss
I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells me finding true love is likely a hopeless proposition. Now is the time when I need to believe in fairy tales. Roxane Gay
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. Michael Pollan
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it. Deborah Copaken Kogan
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. George Gissing
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. Samuel Johnson
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. Flannery O’Connor
Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married? Eric Braeden
I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play. Maksim Chmerkovskiy
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. Elbert Hubbard
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. Charles L. Allen
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts… How does the media do this? By quoting some ‘expert’… you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything. Peter McWilliams
I’m a hopeless 19th-century romantic. John Banville
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won’t stop till I get it right. Halle Berry
I think that what’s been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn’t matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage. Samuel Barber
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. Emmet Fox
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world. Anna C. Brackett
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. Gideon Welles
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a ‘map’ for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project. Anne Grant
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer. Ben Whishaw
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. Alice Miller
What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future. Barack Obama
I’m a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I’m just a pathetic case history, really. Siobhan Fahey
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. Friedrich Durrenmatt
I’ve flown across America, I’ve scaled fences, I’ve stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I’m a hopeless romantic. There’s no hope for me. Joel Madden
A reforming liberal leader in Russia is the Holy Grail of Kremlinology, but the search for one is as misguided and hopeless as that for the relic of the Last Supper. Simon Sebag Montefiore
I’m a hopeless father. I don’t know why. I don’t think I was supposed to be a father. Ryan O’Neal
My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference. Greta Thunburg
The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place. Evan Davis
I was once asked to be a guest presenter on ‘The Big Breakfast’ for a week while Chris Evans was away, but I said no as I knew I’d be hopeless. If they asked me to guest present the ‘Today’ programme on Radio 4, however, I’d jump at the chance. Harry Enfield
You’ll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure. Carlos Ghosn
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. Dario Argento
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one’s mind. After several months’ confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. Nellie Bly
I would have become a pilot if it wasn’t for my poor eyesight and the fact that I am hopeless in science. Richard Quest
With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you’re challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed. Travis Bradberry
If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option. Noam Chomsky
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. Tony Blair
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces. Kenneth Grahame
I’m definitely a hopeless romantic, and I feel stupid even saying that out loud. Chrishell Stause
I’ve seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn’t cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That’s not right. Jack Kevorkian
I’m hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact. Gary Numan
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother? Molly Ivins
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn’t because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil. Nathan Myhrvold
I see so many people. They just seem to be hopeless. Being a Christian and being a pastor, the ultimate hope is in Jesus. Richie Furay
I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don’t use that word. Mike Wallace
He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard. Charles Spurgeon
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is ‘not ready’ to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start. Shirley Chisholm
Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things – but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live. Ginger Zee
I’m not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won’t stop till I get it right. Halle Berry
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. B. R. Hayden
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn’t know to write. Mary Garden
Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised. Mo Ibrahim
I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that’s how reality always is – it’s this duality of being both hopeless and also full of hope. Weyes Blood
I got fairly good grades, but I was bad at woodwork. They said I tried hard, but the result was hopeless. Jonathan Stroud
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. Anne Lamott
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! William Shakespeare
I’m a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out. Jennifer Love Hewitt
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. Charles Babbage
As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media’s power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind. Steven Van Zandt
I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text. Rachel Maddow
If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters. Samuel Adams
If I said to most of the people who auditioned, ‘Good job, awesome, well done,’ it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It’s quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless. Simon Cowell
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. Gilbert K. Chesterton
This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I think I’ll always be a hopeless romantic. Kim Kardashian
I’m hopeless with money; I simply spend what I’ve got. Freddie Mercury
I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. Iris Apfel
I’m a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I’ll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out. Jennifer Love Hewitt
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm. Charles Albert Gobat
Some people come alive at night. I’m hopeless by 9 p.m. Coffee and Cadbury buy me an extra half hour. Often I can’t get my clothes off I’m so far gone. Emily Mortimer
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we’ve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world. Alexander McCall Smith
I am hopeless with machinery. I could never learn to drive a car except into a wall. Ruskin Bond
I’ve not sat with my agent going: ‘Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?’ They just come along. Laura Carmichael
I am a hopeless romantic, and so is my wife. Nick Cannon
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. Carter G. Woodson
I’m a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I’ve discovered as I’ve grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you’re a kid. It isn’t just a straightforward fairytale. Rachel McAdams
I am a hopeless, shameless flirt. Elizabeth Wurtzel
I’m hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. Tom Stoppard
A ring doesn’t define me. Call me a hopeless romantic, but I’d rather be unmarried or in a loving relationship than be in an arranged marriage or with someone who acts as though they can’t stand me half the time. Kenya Moore
Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back. Chris Christie
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. Clare Boothe Luce
Stock is everything in cooking, at least in French cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. If one’s stock is good, what remains of the work is easy; if, on the other hand, it is bad or merely mediocre, it is quite hopeless to expect anything approaching a satisfactory result. Auguste Escoffier
I think I’m much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that’s something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me. Hugo Weaving
I’m a hopeless romantic. It’s disgusting. It really is. I’ve seen ‘While You Were Sleeping’, like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing. Jennifer Love Hewitt
I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless. Keanu Reeves
