Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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.
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.