Quotes About Desperation

They were land-hungry, ill-armed hordes too, and the legions could not stop them. Slaughter and terror did not stop them. How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched belles of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

he felt himself hopelessly outnumbered.

Markov died while trying to fit a small, slippery shotgun shell into a narrow gun barrel, in the dark, at thirty below zero—with a tiger bearing down on him from ten yards away.

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.

...as if prayers ever put out a fire.

My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.

I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.

God gives us life and then we spend a good part of it trying to live on our own, and finally, usually in desperation, giving our life back to Him, because He knows our true self from our beginning.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

There are a group of people that wake up everyday and go to work to learn nothing, get nowhere and wonder when and how things will ever change.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Un día que habían salvado contra su voluntad a una viuda que se había arrojado al agua, mi abuela me había dicho (movida acaso por uno de esos presentimientos que leemos a veces en el misterio, tan oscuro, sin embargo, de nuestra vida orgánica, pero en que parece como que se refleja lo por venir) que no conocía crueldad semejante a la de arrancar a una desesperada a la muerte que ella misma ha querido y devolverla a su martirio.

Sheila, sweetheart, I'm dying here

I studied the shape of my friend's hands, and how he clasped them. I could smell his skin and hair in the cold air of the church, and stood aching, my face a devout mask stretched over a rotten soul. On

A kétségbeesés fenekére dönt, hogy képem kitörl?dött lelkedb?l, s bizony, neked is szégyened. Igazán a legkevesebb, amit elvárhatok t?led, hogy legalább azt viseld el, ha felpanaszolom szenvedéseimet. Éreztem én, el?re éreztem, mennyi gyötrelem vár rám, mikor láttam, hogy elhatároztad: elhagysz engem.