Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

If it's just the same with you, Mr. President, I'd like to lie down and die.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

It's much too late to save myself from falling.

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.

I wasn't gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.

Do not blame any supernatural being, neither be hopeless and despondent, nor think we are in a place from which we can never escape unless someone comes and lends us a helping hand.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen