It's always hard to admit we're feeling hopeless and we often push those thoughts to the back of our minds. We tell ourselves that whatever is wrong will pass and we'll be fine, without acknowledging that we're struggling with deep feelings of sadness and unworthiness. It's important not to let those feelings take over, and that we recognize that we're not the only person feeling like this. We all experience these difficult feelings and we've all been there before.
August 4, 2019
All I want to do right now is cry and scream and let it all out because it's killing me inside. This is how I feel right now. Being hopeless is the worst feeling. Having nothing in my control... Sometimes I imagine myself running, but I don't know which way I am running; am I running into fear or running away from responsibilities? To keep going, I need a reason. I just can't wake up every morning not knowing what to do. Everything feels bad to me. I am sick of waking up and feeling awful all day, of not seeing anything get better; People say that you should stand in front of a mirror and ask yourself what you want out of life. The problem is that when I stand in front of a mirror, I can't recognize myself. Pain, they say, is temporary. Yet look at Van Gogh for example. I think my point of view is lunatic. The examples that are exceptions are the ones that I see, followed by those that are commonplace. So, am I helpless, or am I acting?
Is that how you feel, too? Then read these top 35 'when things seem hopeless quotes'.
1. "I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." - Ned Vizzini
2. "I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life as in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife." - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying." - Charles Chaplin
4. "The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes." - Nikolai Gogol
5. "People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long." - Johnny Depp
6. "The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life." - Katie McGarry
7. "Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard." - David Levithan
8. "Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic." - Catherine Tate
9. "Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane." - Red, The Shawshank Redemption
10. "It's so difficult to describe depression to someone who's never been there, because it's not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it's that cold absence of feeling... that really hollowed-out feeling." - J.K. Rowling
11. "I don't know if it's possible to take hate away from people. Not even people like us, who've seen firsthand what hate can do. We're all hurting. We're all going to be hurting for a long time. And we, probably more than anyone else out there, will be searching for a new reality every day. A better one." - Jennifer Brown
12. "Well, it may have escaped your notice, but life isn't fair". - Snape, Harry Potter
13. "What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you - This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more… Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him - You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine." - Friedrich Nietzsche
14. "The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time." - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
15. "As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and i wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong." - Tabitha Suzuma
16. "When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better." - Andrew Solomon
17. "When you do not get to the root of the problem, you cannot solve it in any meaningful manner." - Robert Greene
18. "I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart once was." - George R. R. Martin
19. "As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong." - Tabitha Suzuma
20. "Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes." - Shannon L. Alder
21. "But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can’t forgive yourself for." - Melina Marchetta
22. "Guess that's where the tears came from, knowing that there's so much in this great big world that you don't have a single ounce of control over. Guess the sooner you learn that, the sooner you'll have one less heartbreak in your life." - Jacqueline Woodson
23. "The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. "Some days are just bad days, that's all. you have to experience sadness to know happiness and remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!" - Dita Von Teese
25. "You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down." - Charlie Chaplin
26. "As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe... keep breathing." - Hugh Glass, The Revenant
27. "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
28. "Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
29. "Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up." - Steve Maraboli
30. "I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection." - Leonardo da Vinci
31. "You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." - Louise L. Hay
32. "I'm exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel." - Brighton Early
33. "I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed." - Leonardo DiCaprio
34. "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." - Mark Twain
35. "The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Vince Lombardi
Next I would recommend you to watch this animation video by Hannah Grace that focuses on her journey of overcoming hopelessness.
It's important to realize that there are others who have survived similar situations to yours. And yes pain is temporary.
In spite of things looking hopeless and feeling like giving up, remember that there is no failure if you learn from your mistakes. There is only learning along the way.
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