Lord Byron Quotes

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

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

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.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

Powerlessness frustrates; absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely. Absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with.

If it's just the same with you, Mr. President, I'd like to lie down and die.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

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

Sometimes, what's helpful is to admit that we are discouraged and admit that we are at a loss.

When things aren't going well it can feel like the world is against you and there's nowhere to turn.

I feel like dying when I'm helpless

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

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

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.