Quotes About Desperation

Blatant idiocies had been tried by early men and womenfoolishness that would never have been considered by species aware of the laws of nature. Desperate superstitions had bred during the savage centuries. Styles of government, intrigues, philosophies were tested with abandon. It was almost as if Orphan Earth had been a planetary laboratory, upon which a series of senseless and bizarre experiments were tried.

There was somebody screaming somewhere, and she kept wondering who it could be. She turned to the people who watched her and said in a lost, chiding voice, "Quit screaming, please! Screaming doesn't help!" She closed her eyes and leaned against the fence; and then she knew the person screaming was herself.

putting your faith in Milligan is just a fancy term for despair.

I didn't know if we were heading for the gallows or an interrogation chamber. The night had passed without sleep; save for a swig from the German's flask, there hadn't been a sip to drink since the rooftop of the Kirov; a lump the size of an infant's fist had swelled where my forehead had cracked the ceiling- it was a bad morning, really; among my worst- but I wanted to live.

It always amused me to observe the pathetically desperate hunger expressed in popular culture for life forms on other planets, when under the feet of these seekers of aliens, and roundly ignored by them, were the most exotic, grotesque, and fabulous life forms imaginable

Fiver hung onto my arm as if I was the last boat on the Lusitania.

she poured herself into him wordlessly. Unable to stop, she emptied her very core into him, and yelled and sobbed and laughed and promised and begged, and explained why and why not, and why they must and why they couldn't, and why there was no life without and how everything is always ripped in the same place and how she curses the moment and is resurrected over and over again endlessly.

It had never been that addicts don't care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

God, either you come down here tonight and touch me, or I'm going to die and come up there and touch you.

I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

God's grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.

My God, don't shoot !

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

We need spring. We need it desperately, and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer." Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.