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«When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.»
«The old / like children / talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!»
«To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.»
«Wherefore to-night so full of care, / My soul, revolving hopeless strife?»
Author: Robert Bridges (Physician, Poet) | Keywords: hopeless
«They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.»
«There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.»
«There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.»
«The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.»
«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.»
«There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Sorrow, Wisdom | Keywords: hopeless

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