Julien Baker Quotes

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

Hopelessness is a feeling. It's not a fact.

No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

You should despair and run away.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.