Quotes About Desperation

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

There are still a few men who love desperately.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

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.

Little Boy Blue... he needed the money!

People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

The dream of having one's dream job turned into "Oh my God, I'll take any job. I've been out of work for two years now. I don't care what I do. I'll do anything because I don't have any money".

I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?"- Eric, club dead.

For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.

He says he's not broke but he is trying to sell his kidney and corneas.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

Poverty is the mother of crime.