Hoplessness Quotes & Sayings

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption. — Patti Stanger

I can find no means to account for all that we have witnessed, except to say that I am no longer certain of the boundaries between man & beast, of the living & the dead. All that I have taken for granted, what I have known as real & true, has been called into question. — Eowyn Ivey

Between the atheism and the lesbian thing, Lily was a terrible Catholic. Even before she'd added murder to her list of sins. — Robin Talley

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation — Robert Frost

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power. — Benjamin Disraeli

The family watched It's a Wonderful Life, which is a very beautiful movie and all I could think was why didn't they make a movie about uncle Billy? ... Because he was a drunk and fat and lost all that money in the first place. I wanted an angel to come down and show us how uncle Billy's life had meaning — Stephen Chbosky

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all. — D.H. Lawrence

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players. — Mignon McLaughlin

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington

It almost felt like we were driving in our own world
like we were inside a snow globe
and there was music and sunlight and smiles and laughter floating in the air. And it was all self-contained in a beautiful bubble filled with glittering water that made things seem a little unreal, a little dream-like and hazy. — Melissa C. Walker

The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive? — Arthur Golden

We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes ... The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited. — Sidney Poitier

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians
with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds
project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one. — Bruce Chatwin

How did she do that? How did she make him feel weak and strong? Thrilled and terrified? He couldn't find a way to return what she'd given him. He didn't have the gift she did with words. All he could do was take her hand and kiss it, and bring it to his heart ... — Veronica Rossi

God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects. — Gottfried Leibniz

You're so brave, so strong. I'm proud of you. — Kass Morgan