Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

This is madness with no end in sight.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war.

I don't know what is to be done. This isn't war.

Vietnam is getting worse every day. It’s like being in an airplane and having to choose between crashing the plane or jumping out. I do not have a parachute.

All hope of remedy is considered vain

A man can fight if he can see daylight down the road. But there ain’t no daylight in Vietnam. There’s not a bit.

I've given up trying to reason with people who despise me.

And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!

Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.

Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house... " - Shigure Sohma

To me, you can't win. You can't win. There's a war in Iraq; there's no way that they're ending that. The war in Afghanistan is still going on. There's no way that's going to end anytime soon. You can complain about it, you can throw rocks at it, but you really have to come to the conclusion that this is a really twisted place sometimes and some stuff you're not going to win.

The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change...

If. A two-letter word for futility.

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?