Quotes About Desperation

I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could just love long enough and hard enough and deep enough, then the world outside would never, could never hurt us.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

You see, I'll never get out of hell if there's not even you left to pray for me

O BICHO VI ONTEM um bicho Na imundície do pátio Catando comida entre os detritos. Quando achava alguma coisa, Não examinava nem cheirava: Engolia com voracidade. O bicho não era um cão, Não era um gato, Não era um rato. O bicho, meu Deus, era um homem.

Locking the door, Tessa sat on the cold tile floor and slumped against the wall. Tears fell down her face, over her chin, and down her neck. She began to communicate with Skylar's hat, silently asking it to cheer her up. Share some memories with me, she pleaded. Make the pain go away.

In my most desperate moments, I have never conceived of anything more horrible than a law office.

bit is about how an intrusive suicidal ideation can show up when you least expect it, how true deep despair appears out of nowhere. That is terrifying because it feels like a killer on the loose.

It is not bad to pray in a time of crisis. One of God's most amazing attributes is that he is humble enough to accept people when they turn to him in sheer desperation, even when they have been ignoring him for years.

The modern slave trader assures himself (or herself) that the desperate people are better off earning one dollar a day than no dollars at all, and that they are receiving the opportunity to become integrated into the larger world community.

Too many details and I'm out of my very peculiar little closet (it's a lovely closet; it smells of pine and desperation).

Alex Roentgen twisted again, faced the ground that would kill him, and screamed the scream of the abandoned.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

I seen too many you guys. If you had two bits in the worl', why you'd be in gettin' two shots of corn with it and suckin' the bottom of the glass.

All this is a preface to the fear and uncertainties which clamber over a man so that in his silly work he thinks he must be crazy because he is so alone.

When shoes and clothes and food, when hope is gone we'll all have the rifle.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.

What have I to fear but starvation? Kino asked.

when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need.

In the wet hay of leaking barns babies were born to women who panted with pneumonia. And old people curled up in corners and died that way, so that the coroners could not straighten them. At night frantic men walked boldly to hen roosts and carried off the squawking chickens. If they were shot at, they did not run, but splashed sullenly away; and if they were hit, they sank tiredly in the mud.

She had not prayed directly for the recovery of the baby - she had prayed that they might find a pearl with which to hire the doctor to cure the baby, for the minds of people are as unsubstantial as the mirage of the Gulf.

Tommy, I got to thinkin' an' dreamin' an' wonderin'. They say there's a hun'erd thousand of us shoved out. If we was all mad the same way, Tommy—they wouldn't hunt nobody down—'' She stopped.

It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.

A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children?