Quotes About Desperation

God, please," I scream, "help, Mom, he is going to kill me!" And she is standing just where she was three minutes ago. Three minutes ago my life was different. Three minutes ago I could have made it out of here intact, but now Ã¢â'¬Â¦ And my mother, arms folded, body now relaxed and loose, is wearing the curly smile of a Cheshire cat, staring right at me, holding my eyes as I go down, crack, into the corner.

Parecía especializarse en causas perdidas. Perderlas primero y después largarse atrás como un loco.

No me des tregua, no me perdones nunca. Hostígame en la sangre, que cada cosa cruel sea tú que vuelves. ¡No me dejes dormir, no me des paz! Entonces ganaré mi reino, naceré lentamente. No me pierdas como una música fácil, no seas caricia ni guante; tálame como un sílex, desespérame.

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

How stark everything became, at the end, all the wishes for one's children distilled by the world's swift cruelty into the desperate hope that death would take them fast.

First one and then another and then more and more, their frozen figures resolving out of the gloom. Most were seated around a series of tall tables, their postures grimly comical, as if they'd been overcome in the midst of some desperate, private act.

Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

I had my pick of three. Never ceases to amaze me, the insane things people will do for money.

Every time he asked about it, Joseph smiled wider and with increasing desperation. Nef and I gave him all sorts of helpful ideas, the best of which, as I recall, had the Man of La Mancha meeting the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future

Jack's kissing me because he wants to, desperately, as though his life depends on it. Because I'm as important to him right then as he is to me.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow.

Ah... I hope my final wish may be granted. Because soon I will vanish from this world. Struggling desperately to live... these children cry out. Somehow I must protect them. Though I don't even know who to pray to. Somehow... Somehow... I want them not to forget.

There is a dark side to being single in a great big city like New York. There's this sense of isolation and I think you can get fairly desperate.

There's nothing less funny than somebody trying to be funny. I loved Jack Dee, then I met him and I became the least funny human to exist because of my desperation to say something amusing.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

The feeling of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.

Most human beings, in other words, would rather fight than starve.19

was ready to do a Brodie out the refuse chute.

They found Caddo in the lounge of Oridin's house chewing on a book of logarithms. His mind was gone. He could only babble figures. His fingers twitched with cramps from writing with a pencil and punching the keys of the calculating machine.

Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.

If life were merely a habit, I should commit suicide; but even now, more or less desperate, I cannot but think, 'Something wonderful may happen.' It is not optimism, it is a rejection of self-pity (I hope) which leaves a loophole for life… I merely choose to remain living out of respect for possibility. And possibility is the great good. — Frank O'Hara, Early Writing , 108-9 (1/22/49) Bookpeople (June 1977).

The paradox is that sometimes the less it makes sense, the better it works. And the less one knows about the "holy" people we follow, the better. One of the mysteries of human need is that religious leaders must become more than the sum of their fallible, sometimes awful, parts, because other people need them to be more. This does not make the religious leader a hypocrite; it just shows that the rest of us are desperate. So