How can you tell when it is time to abandon hope?

Abandoning hope can not help one in any situation. Hope is always there and even if it seems to be your last option and the only thing left, you should never give up hope. In some situations hope is all you have left to fall back on and if you give up hope than you have nothing. So always keep your hopes up and never lose hope.

I think, hope is very relative. It varies along with individual. I never let my hope abandon, until the decision(any fact, etc) has come out and it is final. Because hope is the things which takes ahead step by step. It is very important for us to be hopeful. Without hope one cannot sustain.

The saying goes "while there is life ,there is hope" That's situational i agree. When you think there is no more hope,then it's time to abandoned. Like for example,you are in love with someone and you been courting her even if she already has a boyfriend,you still hope that someday she will realized that she loves you and leave her boyfriend (you had all hopes and faith) Until one day,they got married ...then,it's time to abandoned any hope (simple as that) When you know there is no hope for something that you wished for,why waste time,rather than starting new things. Have a great weekend ahead

It is only in despair that hope should be abandoned. The time for giving up hope is when nothing in life matters. This is a desperate time because we should never feel the need to ever give up hope.

When the final breath is drawn from my body, I think that is the time where all hope is lost. However, when I still have time to live, there is time to have hope. It is never really too late as long as I am still living, still breathing. Therefore, I still have the strength to hope that something is going to happen and its going to be great. We're going to go through the great times in life and the dark times in life. So, life does go on, as long as I actually live and there is hope every second that life goes on. As long as there are a few breaths left in my body, I will never stop hoping. Fortunes can turn around in the blink of the eye. Granted, it is both for better and for worst, but in the end there always should be hope. It is what gets us through the very worst in life.

As you have rightly said generalizing this concept might be difficult as it may applies to a variety of situations.Hence,I will try to answer linking to two or more circumstances.In the first instance let us assume you are watching your favorite team playing soccer and with five minutes to the end of the match and the team is trailing by five goals to one.You will be forgiven if you lose hope of the team winning the match.As a student who has taken a ten-paper examination and have received the result of seven of them and had failed six already if you lose hope of passing the exam no one will blame you.

I have lost all hope when I got anxiety disorder and fear took over me. I felt afraid of doing everything in my life and this led me to divorce. I lost hope there when I tried to work the relationship out from many angles while getting no signal at all from the other party, so, it was time for me to give up. I was able to give that hope up when I found another hope to follow.. I just had to hope that I can keep going on even if things changed. Hope that time will tell... so in the end maybe I never really lost all hope but just ideals I had.

i never had this feeling before but this is interesting. i will surely take a look in a minute for the answers and share.

I think it is good to have hope. Even when we know the chances are slim to succeed but what's wrong with having hope. A terminally ill person might still hope for a miracle and some might actually find one. Just don't give up on any hope. Who knows someday, the impossible will happen :D Cheers!

Hi there foofermen: "Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here." Allegedly, it was posted on the gate of hell. A fitting sign, I should say. Not until I enter that place shall I abandon all hope !