Quotes About Desperation

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Help me. Please, God help me.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

Que le Dieu qui nous tue nous vienne en aide! God who kills us, come to our rescue!

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most.

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

she seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so

Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

Help me Cassius or I sink!

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.