Hope Loss Quotes

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

When we lose hope that there is a possibility of reaching the other side - I don't even like to say the 'other side' because there are so many sides, and breaking it down into us/them is oversimplifying - it allows us to treat people in a way that's incredibly destructive.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.

Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope.

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.

I'll live in another world, then.

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.