Quotes About Desperation

I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness?

You can't keep messing me around like this. It's been going on too long. I can't take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You're like a disease to me.

It was only love, It only drove me to my knees.Rendering me hopelessLike an incurable disease.

Such hungry desperation in a single kiss when it's enamored in love and bathed in bliss.

Eating your own heart simply to keep the strangers from tasting: a suicide.

...There's a difference between desire and desperation. You should never want a guy more than he wants you.

My word stinkof blood and goreof sleepless nightsof invisible demonsof razors and knivesof slashed wristsMy words - they stink.

At least, when there's fear, there's some human part left in you. Once that's gone, though, there is nothing.

Had they taken her from me, I would willingly have gone with thee into the forest, and signed my name in the Black Man's book too, and that with mine own blood!

There he dwelt among poverty-stricken wretches, sinners, and forlorn good people, Irish, and whomsoever else were neediest.

After seventeen days, one of the crew suggested that they cast lots. As it turned out, the lot fell to the man who had originally made the proposal, and after lots were cast again to see who should execute him, he was killed and eaten.

Loneliness. Sometimes that awful feeling causes you to do something stupid.

You may think I'm crazy, but I don't feel like I've done anything wrong. He deserved to die, so I've decided to pretend that he just went off somewhere instead of coming home tonight.

Why did anyone make a deal with the devil? Desperation, pursuit of power and wealth … Or perhaps a mistaken confidence in one's ability to avoid pitfalls, to take something worthwhile from that deal and not be, as some would have it, "royally screwed.

There are times I feel like I'm the kid screaming at the bottom of the well, and my dog runs off to pee on trees instead of getting help.

The pain of knowing is killing me more than killing me would kill me, so I jump just to end it.

I never met the boy, or his parents, but I see kids like him every day." Sonia tells Connor. "Their world is shattered, and they're so desperate for validation that they'd blow themselves up to get it. Any parent who disowns that boy after what he did, and didn't do . . . doesn't deserve to have children at all, much less a child to give away.

Can't you see? I don't get to do ANYTHING I want! Because I'm too busy just trying to stay alive. And you come here with your fancy school uniform and your mother's jewelry and your neighbor's freaking car, and you think you can buy your way in? What kind of idiot buys his way into the bottom?

He has no choice but to believe, because losing the hope of having hope would be unimaginable.

Greyson Tolliver spent his days as His Sonority, the Toll, consoling desperate, starstruck people and passing along wise advice from the Thunderhead. Except, of course, when he made shit up.

Yeah! Someone says they freaked out and ate each other—you know, like the Donner party.

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

He asked, What makes a man a writer? Well, I said, it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.