Quotes on No Hope

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.