Quotes About Desperation

Tell me again what you saved.'' ''Your life'' Daenerys, said. Mirri Maz Duur laughed cruelly. ''Look to your khal and see what life is worth when all the rest is gone.

Come at once. Help me. Save me. I need you as I have never needed you before. I love you, I love you, I love you. Come at once"-Cersei Lannister

Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.

Must I say it, ser? You call me love, yet you refuse me, when I have most desperate need of you. Is it so wrong of me to want a knight to keep me safe? - Arianne

The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.

Noooo," Cersei wailed, "Father help him, someone help him, my son, my son...' Tyrian found himself thinking of Robb Stark. My own wedding is looking much better in hindsight.

He's turned against me too, Theon realized. Of late it seemed to him as if the very stones of Winterfell had turned against him. If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

That made her laugh until she screamed. "Mad," someone said, "she's lost her wits," and someone else said, "Make an end," and a hand grabbed her scalp just as she'd done with Jinglebell, and she thought, No, don't, don't cut my hair, Ned loves my hair. Then the steel was at her throat, and its bite was red and cold.

There's naught to eat in the dark but flesh.

Gaunt men with sunken eyes squatted amidst sand and stones, shitting out their lives in stinking streams of brown and red.

When men are starving and sick of fear, they look for a savior.

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

Why has no one come to pry me out of here? - Cersei

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!

Adult ant-lions come in a variety of sizes and, for the most part, rather drab colouring. They look like extremely untidy and demented dragon-flies. They have wings that seem out of all proportion to their bodies and these they flap with a desperate air, as though it required the maximum amount of energy to prevent them from crashing to the earth.

If they want to kill us so desperately, then surely we are worthwhile, valid, of importance to the world.

I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin?

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

At their wits' end.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

No woman wants an abortion. A woman who has one is almost always in a desperate situation, and her decision is not made lightly. She deserves Christian compassion, not... self-righteous scorn...

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.