Quotes About Desperation

I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whather it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Suicides, almost by definition, are all ghosts - stuck earthbound because they are desperate to apologize to their loved ones or because they are so ashamed of themselves.

You, Seven pronounced, are a train wreck of sexual history. But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

When he kissed me, it was with the desperation of a man who is trying to save himself.

Kiedy nie ma siÄ™ nic oprócz mÅ'otka, wszystko wyglÄ…da jak gwó?d?.

Caesar snorts. 'Maybe it was. Maybe the fat guy was really a suicide arsonist. He crawled up into the chimney and lit himself on fire.' 'Maybe he was just desperate to lose weight,' Paulie adds, and the other guys crack up. 'Enough,' I say. 'Aw, Fitz, you gotta admit it's pretty funny – ' 'Not to that man's parents. Not to his family.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

I walk towards the car but on second thought step back to the railing for a final look. Enormous. Anonymous. I could hurtle myself down the walls of this chasm, and never be found.

Humor is the last refuge of the damned.

I'm so bored I could sing to my dick.

The Puritans, then, were not afraid to use the law of God as an instrument of evangelism. When God is about to play the chord of grace in the soul, they taught, he usually starts with the bass note of the law. In order for man to come to Christ, he must first come to an end of his own righteousness.[4] "They held [that] the index of the soundness of a man's faith in Christ is the genuineness of the self-despair from which it springs," says Packer.

Love can sometimes rise up like a desperate cry from a neglected part of oneself which takes a long view but which is submerged by the presence of strident wants.

I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.

The last image I had of her was her sitting on the platform at Thorpe as a group of people stared at this distressed, weeping woman, and then her charging towards the glass of my window seat as the train pulled out of the station. I had gasped, thinking she meant to throw herself under the wheels, but no, she had simply wanted to attack me, that was all. If she had got her hands on me, she might have killed me. And I might have let her.

I would have seen it all, had I been able to see, but I could see none of it because I had spent my entire life blind and deaf and mute and ignorant, devoid of any senses save the one that governed my sexual compulsions and that had brought me to this terrible place from which, I was certain, there could be no return.

As Winifred Newman said, "Vision is the world's most desperate need. There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.

Vision is the world's most desperate need. There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.

I've learned...that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in.

A failing love is like desperately hanging on to something precious; not wanting to give up, but your hands feel the pain. And, when you finally let go, you're free from any pain, but your hands are empty.

I wish you would open your eyes and realize what you have before it's gone. You keep pushing me away from you and every time I have to fight my way back in. The fight in me is slowly dying and once it's gone, I'll be gone too, and I won't be coming back...

You have no idea what it feels like to wake up every morning afraid your going to live.

Maybe I'm scared, scared that the person that has meant so much to me for so long, might actually be falling out of my grasp...and there's nothing I can do to stop him.

For Sale: One heart. Horrible condition will take anything for it. PLEASE! Just cut it out of my chest and end the suffering...

Do you know what it feels like loving someone whos in a rush to throw you away?