#hopeless

Even in the grave, all is not lost. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#hopelessness #death

It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#help #hopeless #positivity #faith

I kept hoping because she couldn’t afford to lose hope. I kept my faith so she wouldn’t lose hers. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#hope #hopelessness #faith

It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up. ↗

— Holly Black

#hopeless #loneliness #sad #trapped #food

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

#everything #faith #forgive #hope #hopeless

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it. ↗

— Gerry Spence

#because #bureau #bureaus #deeply #embedded

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. ↗

— George Eliot

#desire #effort #escape #evil #except

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved. ↗

— Joyce Johnson

#kerouac #love #rescue-mentality #sacrifice #love

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. ↗

— Albert Camus

#hope #hopelessness #suicide #consciousness

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. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#bad #by the time #chef #family #friendless