Quotes About Desperation

Violence," came the retort, "is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Violence is the last refuge—' '– of the incompetent.

I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.

Muereté, mi amor, suplico Ernesto de rodillas junto a la cama. Muereté hija, agregue yo en silencio, porque no me salio la voz...

thought about the years I still had left to live and decided that without her it wasn't worth it, for I would never find another woman with her green hair and underwater beauty. If anyone had told me then that I would live to be more than ninety, I would have put a gun to my head and pulled the trigger.

One man carried his dead son. He thought the boy was still alive. The father was covered with his son's blood, and as he ran he kept saying, I will get you to the hospital, my boy, everything will be fine. Perhaps it was necessary that he cling to false hopes, since they kept him running from harm.

Poverty is worse than nightmares. You can wake up from nightmares.

Those who searched the day for something to eat were not interested in documents, sensitive or not.

When I was filming 'Prudence' in Zimbabwe, I noticed the hold fundamentalist Christianity had on sub-Saharan Africa. So I thought I'd like to make a film about religion in Africa because the prosperity gospel is big business where people are desperate, poor, and sick.

I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.

Traditionally in zombie movies, one of the main characters dies.

28 Days Later' is a favorite film of mine that communicates so much beyond the fun of a zombie movie.

The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.

When I first met Steve, as an American tourist coming into the zoo, I fell desperately in love with him and married him immediately.

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.

I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

I'm straight and always have been. When our family gets together, we joke about it or throw our hands up in desperation because there is very little we can do. If we make a big fuss about correcting these rumors, it just creates more attention and turns the whole thing into a soap opera.