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Hopelessness and despair10 quotes
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God, God,
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world! — William Shakespeare · 1616My dream is to become hopeless. — George Costanza · 1992The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope. — Hannah Arendt · 1951Human life begins on the far side of despair. — Jean-Paul Sartre · 1943We never have despair without some small hope. — Pier Paolo Pasolini · 1961All 10 quotes →Hope5 quotes
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope. — Hannah Arendt · 1951We never have despair without some small hope. — Pier Paolo Pasolini · 1961Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. — Yevgeny Baratynsky · 1823To acquiesce in despair is the very way to make despairing forecasts come true. — Bertrand Russell · 1951Decline of civilization1 quote
The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope. — Hannah Arendt · 1951Disillusionment1 quote
The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope. — Hannah Arendt · 1951Dreams1 quote
My dream is to become hopeless. — George Costanza · 1992Giving up1 quote
To acquiesce in despair is the very way to make despairing forecasts come true. — Bertrand Russell · 1951Hell1 quote
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Life1 quote
There is no love of life without despair of life. — Albert Camus · 1937Meaninglessness of life1 quote
Human life begins on the far side of despair. — Jean-Paul Sartre · 1943Over it1 quote
O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God, God,
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world! — William Shakespeare · 1616Pleasure1 quote
In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1865Suicide1 quote
O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God, God,
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world! — William Shakespeare · 1616The human condition1 quote
There is no love of life without despair of life. — Albert Camus · 1937