Quotes About Desperation

Aprendió la dura lección que Moisés había tratado de enseñar a los israelitas siglos atrás: cualquier cosa que los seres humanos toquen, llevará un defecto fatal. Los buenos tiempos representan el verdadero peligro; nuestros mejores esfuerzos nos llevan a la ruina. En resumen, los seres humanos no son dioses, y ese entendimiento llevó al Maestro a la desesperación.

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.

We're dead," said Wally. "We are cooked! Fried!

Today the only thing left of the life of those days is what one needs to suffer hunger and cold; I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.

I will tell just one more story... and I will tell it with the humility and restraint of him who knows from the start that his theme is desperate, his means feeble, and the trade of clothing facts in words is bound by its very nature to fail.

Strano, in qualche modo si ha sempre l'impressione di essere fortunati, che una qualche circostanza, magari infinitesima, ci trattenga sull'orlo della disperazione e ci conceda di vivere.

He warps your perspective on the current events in your life until reality appears much worse and more desperate than it truly is.

Maybe it's just the accumulated stress and strain from a long season of steady struggle. Or maybe you aren't overwhelmed at all. More like underwhelmed—bored with the sameness and mundaneness of a life you thought would be filled with so much more adventure. The predictability, the pointlessness. Urgh. You so desperately want a change, or at least a little excitement along the way.

Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A

A sorcerer and a whore. Perhaps a certain desperation was to be expected of such unions, as though that strange word, "love," became profound in proportion to the degree one was scorned by others.

Faster, Jerry!" Dr. Shreek instructed, screaming at the top of his lungs. "Faster! The hands are alive! Alive!" "I can't do it!" I cried. "Please!" "Faster! Faster!

HAD TO KILL THEM I COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE LUCY K I

THTL— too hot to live

I'm sorry, Eve. I love you. I'm not letting you do this." She screamed and battered harder. "You love me? You asshole! Let me go!

Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they'd need to destroy something that precious to feel full.

I guess in my beer-soaked mind it would all just magically work out, and she'd be so happy to see me she'd forget about everything else. Because everybody loves having the drunken self-pitying boyfriend banging on their door at, Jesus, four thirty in the morning.

Desperate people do desperate things. You cannot be one of them. You must be better.

It smelled like Lysol and desperation.

I love you, he said. It came out in a rush, as if he couldn't wait to get it out. I love you and Jesus, you scare me. Having to give you up was the hardest thing I've ever done, Claire; I can't do it again. Please tell me - please tell me that you're coming back for good. Or at least, if you leave, let me go with you. - Shane, Fall of night

Stripping away the humanity because that is the only way I can save myself and still watch this unrelenting horror.

Absalom has made me into the worst kind of enemy: one with nothing to lose, and nothing left to fear.

If Caroline was here, she'd give me her Patience, grasshopper speech. But she's not and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

I start to lose consciousness, and only desperation and fear keep my heart pounding, hard. Darkness descends, as Awful rises. Ivan has no idea what's coming. Neither do I. Last time I did not fight hard enough. This time, I will.