Quotes About Desperation

REBECCA: If you sit long enough, maybe everything becomes clear. Maybe you can make sense of all the losses and find one thing you can hold on to. I'm sitting here thinking of everything that has passed, everyone that is gone, and hoping I can find her, my mother. Not because she is my first choice, but because she is my last choice and... my world has gone to shit.

You must be desperate if you're asking Mom for adivce. Did she sit you down on the couch ?" "I'm not a patient of hers, asswipe. I'm her favorite son." Derrick ignored Gage's huff. The little snot. (...) "Favorite, my ass. She pities you. Gage is nothing more than a baby-maker. I'm the favorite." Dylan preened, pulling at the cuffs on his designer shirt. "Culture, charm, good looks and a real occupation. What's not to love

You cannot write to save your soul. given up it drifts and does the singing.

any moment now that sun would burst into a ball of flame, a furnace to stifle the heart of Petites Cendres, his soul felt blood-raw, liquefied deep down inside him, in a pale, cold sea where the need that gnawed at him would break your heart, a fire burnt out, his heart, that dog should not have been there on Esmeralda or Bahama Street, hunger tottering on all fours, night-prowling around the Porte du Baiser Saloon where he just would not stop living despite all odds

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.

The man was bearing down on me. My hands were limp and wet. Please, I thought. Please. Who was I addressing? The man? God? Whoever handled these things.

Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

Don't let the sun go down on me.

Lord help my poor soul.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

Never allow yourself to be so desperate that you compromise to end in settling for far less than what you deserve. You must honor your inner self. Be not a person of circumstances but be a product of self right decision.

Guys die down here on a regular basis-that's the reality. They die here for a nickel. They are killed for a piece of change or because somebody looks at somebody wrong.

During a test, people look up for inspiration, down in desperation, and left and right for information.

I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me superman.

I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here.

His jeans, soft against her legs, made her realize that twice tonight they'd done the deed with him more dressed than not. She liked such desperation in a man.

murió es el derrumbe de la vida, murió viene de adentro, trae la verdadera respiración del dolor, murió es la desesperación, la nada frígida y total, el abismo sencillo, el abismo.

Estoy en una edad en que el tiempo parece y es irrecuperable. Tengo que asirme desesperadamente a esta razonable dicha que vino a buscarme y que me encontró