Quotes with hopeless

  • Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • Hans Selye Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • Salman Rushdie After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson 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
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Anne Grant 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
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Pat Barker Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.
    Weg der geesten (1996) 60
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Anna C. Brackett 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
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Emmet Fox 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.
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  • Candice Glover Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.
    Candice Glover
    American R&B singer and actress (1989 - )
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  • Becki Newton My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Robert Hayden 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.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Albert Einstein One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alice Miller 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
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Bernard Lown Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Albert Camus 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
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Germaine Greer 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.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Eugene O'Neill 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!
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Erica Jong 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.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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