Quotes About Desperation

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.

He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.