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Hopeless

adjective

Without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success. "With a hopeless sigh he sat down"

Of a person unable to do something skillfully.

Certain to fail.

(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform. "He is a hopeless romantic"

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"Hopeless" Quotes from Famous Books

... folly's circle which she draws With magic wand. So potent is the spell, That none decoyed into that fatal ring, Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape. There we grow early gray, but never wise; There form connections, and acquire no friend; Solicit pleasure hopeless of success; Waste youth in occupations only fit For second childhood, and devote old age To sports which only childhood could excuse. There they are happiest who dissemble best Their weariness; and they the most polite, Who squander time and treasure with a smile, Though at their own destruction. ...

— The Task and Other Poems • William Cowper

... he drew near the gates, a monstrous dog came out and barked furiously, but Odin rode a little eastward of the shadowy gates to the grave of a wonderful prophetess. It was a cold, gloomy place, and the soul of the great god was pierced with a feeling of hopeless sorrow as he dismounted from Sleipner, and bending over the grave began to chant weird songs, and weave magical charms over it. When he had spoken those wonderful words which could waken the dead from their sleep, there was an awful silence for a moment, and then ...

— Myths That Every Child Should Know - A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People • Various

... Yet hopeless of the land I'd save, Nay, spurned by those for whom I'd die, Unknown where your fond welcome gave, There's still a throb of ecstasy. Even though the latest I may feel on earth. In lingering o'er the scene ...

— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny

... no hopeless effort to save him. It was uncanny that Black Morgan Gandil, after all of his battles, should die without a struggle in this way. And it had been no cowardly attack from the rear. Both wounds were in the front. A hope came to them when his color increased ...

— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick

... be——" said the young man, and then paused, feeling how utterly hopeless it was to find a word expressive of his feelings. In all the years of their life-long comradeship he had never known Charles Stuart to behave in such a manner. "He's gone batty!" he said at last to the closed door, and ...

— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith

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