Hopeless Quotes

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 

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! 
William Shakespeare 

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. 
Gilbert K. Chesterton 

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. 
Elbert Hubbard 

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 

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. 
Samuel Johnson 

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. 
Chester W. Nimitz 

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 

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 

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. 
Tom Stoppard 

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends. 
Orlando Bloom 

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got. 
Freddie Mercury 

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure. 
Carlos Ghosn 

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 

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. 
Friedrich Durrenmatt 

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 

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. 
Glenn Beck 

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 

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 a hopeless romantic. 
Lance Bass


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 

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. 
Clare Boothe Luce 

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with. 
Jeremy London 

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really. 
Siobhan Fahey 

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect. 
Maggie Smith 

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 

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 

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. 
Dario Argento 

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist. 
Edward Sapir 

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. 
Charles Babbage 

I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind. 
Leelee Sobieski 

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text. 
Rachel Maddow 

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 am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless. 
Keanu Reeves 

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 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'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 

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do. 
Jan Egeland 

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. 
Charles L. Allen 

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


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 

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 

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 

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless. 
Norman Spinrad 

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 

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 

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married? 
Eric Braeden 

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write. 
Mary Garden 

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 

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. 
George Gissing 

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 

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 

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. 
Gordon W. Allport