Quotes About Desperation

Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end." "Should I try Fox News?" I asked. Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.

And I desperately wanted to return to the world! I didn't want to waste any more time. I was determined, so determined, not to waste time ever again.

Desperate for beer, they ignored the abundant freshwater. Even the Bible advised against drinking water in Saint Paul's epistle to Timothy: "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and for thine own infirmities."27

Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Everything I do is somehow rooted in humanity. It's always about people; it's always about ego. It's always about desperation. It's quite existential. You know, 'Am I leading a good life?' That might be because I'm an atheist, and I think this is all we've got, so you better be nice. And have fun.

Don't leave me, Em. You're my salvation.

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.

Please." It's one word, but the way I say it means so much more. Please don't say anything. Please don't look at me. Please don't hurt me. Please just stay away. Please.

This could be our greatest nightmare. But maybe, intead this would be our only hope of salvation.

Helpless, I clenched my fists against my back, well aware that every mile, every minute that ticked by, took me ever farther from getting to them in time and closer to losing the red dragon forever.

He ended the world because it was not to his liking and here I am challenging the same monster for a fifteen-year-old rat from the slums

You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.

Love seeks out that desperate, lonely, frightened place inside each of us and coaxes it out into the daylight, so that it can eviscerate it in the burning heat of the sun.

All of the crazy, risky, wild, dangerous, irrational things I'd been doing, like rushing through my firsts. I'd been wrong, desperate. Just waiting for the end." - Edie

He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

Love will commit, or love will commit suicide.

...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.

I can't loose you...you are the whole reason for everything in my life. Please don't do this!

Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you're desperate for.