#hopelessness

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it. ↗

— Stephen King

#hopelessness #dreams

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

Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#futility #hopelessness #life #life

You took my heart and you held it in your mouth And, with a word all my love came rushing out And, every whisper, it's the worst, emptied out by a single word There is a hollow in me now... And Every whisper, every sigh Eats away at this heart of mine And there is a hollow in me now. So I put my faith in something unknown I'm living on such sweet nothing But I'm trying to hope with nothing to hold I'm living on such sweet nothing. ↗

— Florence Welch

#hopelessness #love #love-hurts #faith

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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#birth #certainties #could #doubt #experiencing

I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth. ↗

— Alma Katsu

#hopelessness #unrequited-love #love

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne. ↗

— Mark A. Rayner

#ashes #child #crush #death #fail

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#hopelessness #worry #despair

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#clutches #crime #education #generations #help

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#being #being done #beset #consciences #done