#hopeless

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#depression #despair #hopelessness #leaves #metaphor

Call me hopeless romantic but I want to see my friend with the guy she's been pining for forever.... I want that more than anything on this earth. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#hopeless-romantic #love #love

When was the last time she'd actually had a relationship based on reality, instead of some completely invented fantasy she'd written in her head? In her stupid, silly, romantic head. ↗

— Harriet Evans

#romantic

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

#devalued #hopeless #just #modern #purchase

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

#asylum #busy #clothing #confinement #does

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. ↗

— Richard Branson

#car #determined #few #fields #find

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#me #patience #surprised

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#merriment #more #nothing #scheme #than

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#because #been #big #clerk #dad

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

— Rachel Maddow

#hopeless #i #phone #text