Quotes About Desperation

You can laugh," she said with angry eyes. "You know how I feel when I'm here? Black and desperate. You don't know what it's like to be standing in the line to get in to see him.

There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.

I think people are really desperate for conversations. I'm really fascinated by the idea that at the same time, the internet is sort of expunging our attention spans.

In truth, I was desperate to leave New York. And Moscow was a special place for me. It was the city where my parents had grown up, where they had met; it was the city where I was born.

It's always been that opponents get down to business against Bayern specifically because they want to show how desperate they are to defeat the champions.

The desperate hunger our president has for approbation has led him to such lengths as claiming that God stopped the rain during his Inauguration. In fact, Mother Nature made sure it rained on Trump's hair the minute he started his speech.

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Don't go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

I ask you, if a mad man came in and abducted your child and I said to you I can bring your child homedoes it matter how I bring them home?

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

And so what moved him onward and down the office building's stairway was not any sort of foolish hope that he could actually be saved, but competitive fury at the fact that he had been outdone by the suicidal improvisations of this fanatic.