Quotes About Desperation

'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman. Homer Simpson

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.