Quotes About Desperation

He felt like his victims were now crawling out of their graves and lining up, zombie-like, to come after him. He was living in a state of stunned disbelief, his thoughts a mush of rampant flashes, his debates raging over strategies that changed by the hour.

In the process, Robbie Flak had spent all his money, burned every bridge, alienated almost every friend, and driven himself to the point of exhaustion and instability.

Hop fell to his knees and pleaded, "Please, Mista Banning. I ain't done nothin'. I got kids, Mista Banning.

The Sky Lounge is not aspirational. It is desperational.

A] lot of them, without even understanding the cause, just give up. They take what they can-mostly in pleasure,and they make the grand gesture, the wild gesture, because what have they got to lose if they do die in a car wreck or a knife fight or something else equally stupid.

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

Even before she started talking to Franny, I could see how desperately important this woman's private unhappiness was to her, and how—in her mind—the only credible reaction to the event of rape was hers. That someone else might have responded differently to a similar abuse only meant to her that the abuse couldn't possibly have been the same.

It was madness that had killed Jenny Fields, his mother. It was extremism. It was self-righteous, fanatical, and monstrous self-pity. Kenny Truckenmiller was only a special kind of moron: a true believer who was also a thug. He was a man who pitied himself so blindly that he could make absolute enemies out of people who contributed only the ideas to his undoing. And how was an Ellen Jamesian any different? Was not her gesture as desperate, and as empty of an understanding of human complexity?

Perhaps she had seen what Jack would look like as an older boy, or a grown man, and what she saw in him riveted her with longing and desperation. (Or with fear and degradation, Jack Burns would one day conclude, because this same older girl suddenly looked away.)

I left poor Scylla in a niche and fled. My fever'd parchings up, my scathing dread Met palsy half way: soon these limbs became 640 Gaunt, wither'd, sapless, feeble, cramp'd, and lame.

Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself?

Somewhat ironically, Clarke later committed suicide as a result of a 'violent and hopeless passion for a very beautiful lady of a rank superior to his own'. To decide the method he tossed a coin: heads he would hang himself, tails he would drown. The coin landed on its side in a mud patch, so he shot himself.

Quinine worked on one disease: malaria. Many physicians gave it for influenza with no better reasoning than desperation.

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.

They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.

Broke ni... make me sick, throw up.

For Sale: One heart. Horrible condition. Will take anything for it. Please. Just cut it out on my chest and end the suffering.

For whatever reason, loving someone gives you purpose. It fills you with hope, joy and a sense of optimism. But when that person leaves you; abandons your love without warning, what do you do? You are left in love, alone and desperate to feel that sense of belonging and worth again.

I hate when people do that desperate act just for attention.

I'd rather be blind than to see your eyes. I'd rather be deaf than to hear your lies. I'd rather be broke than to sell my soul. I gave you my all but you'll never know.