Quotes of Despairing - somelinesforyou

“ It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. ”

- Emmet Fox

“ There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them. ”

- Clare Boothe Luce

“ When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. ”

- Charles L. Allen

“ Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. ”

- Robert Southey

“ The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come. ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

“ In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. ”

- Titus Livius

“ The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. ”

- Bette Davis

“ I've always been reasonably fatalistic. ”

- Nigel Mansell

“ God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the patience to accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference. ”

- The Serenity Prayer

“ If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ”

- Andre Breton

“ I think I let go of the need for approval,... It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to be more desperate for it. Once I felt better inside about myself... I could do everything based on how I want to do things. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Fernando Pessoa

“ When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. ”

- Dorothy Day

“ One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. ”

- Gloria Naylor

“ No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. ”

- St. Francis of Assisi

“ No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.). ”

- Erasmus

“ Desperate courage makes One a majority. ”

- Andrew Jackson

“ It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate — to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless. ”

- Keanu Reeves

“ My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking! ”

- Christopher Eccleston

“ As the seventh wife of Henry VIII I hope I would have managed to do the old monster in-my cooking comes to mind, as I am a hopeless cook. ”

- Antonia Fraser

“ Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best. ”

- Bob Geldof

“ Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You gotta be pretty desperate to make it with a robot. ”

- Homer Simpson

“ Marriage is wonderful but I'm not desperate. I'm not itching for it. It's something that - hopefully, at one time in my life, I'll be able to do. ”

- Jennifer Aniston

“ There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. ”

- Heinz Guderian

“ Refreshingly original, bracingly adult, and thoroughly delightful, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES is like the answer to a TV prayer you didn't know you'd made. ”

- Robert Bianco

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

- Charles Babbage
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