Steven Van Zandt

As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.

American Musician

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

English Writer

Ron Hall

I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life.

Simon Cowell

If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.

British Entertainer

Paula Deen

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

American Chef

Malala Yousafzai

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

Pakistani Activist

Ginger Zee

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

American Scientist

Flannery O'Connor

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

American Author

Susan Polis Schutz

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

American Poet

Jennifer Lopez

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

Use 'hopeless' to express a strong, sad emotion when a situation feels uncontrollable.

Emotional Weight

'Hopeless' can be exaggerated in casual conversation, not implying true despair.

Not Always Literal

The word can be insulting if used to describe people; use with caution.

Context Sensitive

Describes efforts with no likely positive outcome, often leading to giving up.

Action Implication

Suggests repeated failings or a history of ineffectiveness in a certain task.

Nuance in Failure

Often used to humorously admit personal shortcomings in specific activities.

Personal Limitations

Use 'hopeless' for situations or people when improvement seems impossible.

No Positive Change

Conveys that the future state of something or someone appears very bleak.

Grave Outlook

'Hopeless' can imply a decision has been made to stop trying to help or improve.

Final Judgement

 that would be a task beyond hopeless. Instead, we would create an A.I. that uses its intelligence to learn what we value, and its motivation system is constructed in such a way that it is motivated to pursue our values or to perform actions that it predicts we would approve of.

What happens when our...

 A hospital admission followed, the first of many, a diagnosis of schizophrenia came next, and then, worst of all, a toxic, tormenting sense of hopelessness, humiliation and despair about myself and my prospects. But having been encouraged to see the voice

The voices in my head PIPE...

 because of a minor infraction, that could cost you the employee. If you're a college student who, say, is in a downward spiral, and you feel helpless and hopeless, unabated, that could cost you your life. So the stakes are very, very high.

Why you should define...

 to find meaning in devastation. The absurdists deconstructed plot, character and language to question their meaning and share their profound uncertainty on stage. While this may sound grim, the absurd blends its hopelessness with humor.

Why should you read...

 Even though life is getting objectively better by nearly every conceivable standard, more people feel hopeless, depressed and alone. There's an emptiness gnawing away at people, and you don't have to be clinically depressed to feel it.

There's more to life...

 Actually, I haven't shown these before, but here are a few of the candidate universes that I've looked at. Some of these are hopeless universes, completely sterile, with other kinds of pathologies like no notion of space,

Computing a theory of...

 wrap your head around, but they're also individuals that we know. That being said, we can't be hopeless. If we're hopeless, it's all over. The minute we give up hope, there is no hope. So this is where I get sad.

Saving Hawaii’s Birds...

 And mass incarceration, in my judgment, has fundamentally changed our world. In poor communities, in communities of color, there is this despair, there is this hopelessness that is being shaped by these outcomes.

Bryan Stevenson: We need...

 I'll never make it by this time most of my friends have died from violence disease or Shia hopelessness it was a tough life and I knew that my future prospect depends only on a place I was

What forgiveness can...

 is no ordinary calf hopelessly outmatched to the courage of