Best 358 quotes in «hopeless quotes» category

I’m always going to be a hopeless romantic. Always.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

...it is only death which is hopeless.

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

None wise dares hopeless venture.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

Planning anything is hopeless.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary. Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.