Hopeless Situation Quotes

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Abandon every hope, you who enter.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

She wasn't mine. She hadn't been mine for a long time. She shouldn't be here and I shouldn't have asked. So instead of reassuring her, I kept leaning agains the tree looking like the devil and hoping she turned and ran. ~ The Vincent Boys

Our string has run out. There is nothing more we can do.

I don’t think its worth fighting for, and I don’t think we can get out. It’s the biggest damn mess.

I feel much better, now that I've given up hope.

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th... It's over already.

. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

There's no possible way you can get what you want.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?

The System is rigid, strict and hopeless solitary confinement, and I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong.

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.