Quotes About Desperation

In case you failed to notice, in case you failed to see, this is my heart, bleeding before you, this is me down on my knees.

And in the end, we are only atoms. Drifting alone, desperate for something to cling on to.

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!!

In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.

You can't make me do nothing but die!

No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.

I can't watch you die tonight.

Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

It's only water, " she said."Tell that to a drowning man, " Giddon said.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

I was able to see the lights coming from China. If maybe I could go where the lights are I could find something to eat, that's why I escaped.

Get that son of a bitch to jail," he said through his teeth, "before I kill him!" His eyes were testimony enough to the intent of the statement. He'd forgotten law, duty, honor, everything, in the grip of the worst fear he'd ever felt. If she died, he would be lawless. Nothing would matter to him in the world, ever again, except revenge.

I only want to catch you," Michael explained. "I won't hurt you." "No! No!" the star crackled desperately. "That's wrong! I'm supposed to die!" "But I could save you if you'd let me catch you," Michael told it gently. "No!" cried the star. "I'd rather die!

I can't breathe, she said. I feel like I'm drowning in a gray sea, like they're flooding the whole city, washing away our past and people, dashing everything from the face of the earth. Jammed

NO! came his scream from beyond the wall of trees, hating, raging, desperate. But Nita felt no fear. It was as it had been in the beginning; all his no's had never been able to stand against life's I Am.

She stares up- and downriver in search of something. Something she longs for. Something she has been expecting every day, and every day it doesn't come, and still she waits and still she looks and still she yearns, but the hope dwindles with every day that passes. Now she waits hopelessly.

I stood there ringing the bell and banging on the door, feeling I could make someone be there, knowing all the time that I couldn't.

I]f I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die---and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

The term itself—my life—is a desperate overstatement.