Quotes About Desperation

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.

Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)

Hope can make people do terrible things.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

In other words, you are our last possible hope. You are our only hope.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".

The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!

He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.

The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

... had to pee like a racehorse at an Iced Tea convention.

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that's much quieter.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

...one dies of thirst just when the palm tress have appeared on the horizon.

Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.

Hij heeft gebeden en gesmeekt. Hij heeft nachtenlang op zijn knieën gelegen. Het heeft niet geholpen. Dat rampzalige stuk ellende daarboven is zo doof als een rotsblok.