Quotes About Desperation

Por momentos la poesía debiera ser un paroxismo, me digo, semejante a un aullido de dolor infinito. A veces la siento como frenesí, tambores, desenfreno, rabia, gritos, truenos, rayos. Ahora es un gesto tristísimo, como la mirada de un niño perdido.

El viento muere en mi herida. La noche mendiga mi sangre.

no me condenes, dije llorando como nunca he llorado, pidiéndole, rogándole, sos tan diferente, dijo, tan diferente, aquí sus ojos serios porque calculaba, sí, sin duda calculaba que yo iba a traer el escándalo de la poesía a su vida calculada de horarios y encuentros nada entrañables, negándome como quien se niega al sol, ocupado en preparar su suicidio. El mío vendrá pronto. Yo no puedo vivir. Esto lo sé. Lo he sabido siempre. Siempre lo supe. Ahora lo sé.

I offer myself awfully abyss frost I offer myself you frighten me I offer myself I don't give a fuck

Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

London is locked in a sort of dance of propriety, and it seems to me that it has led to desperation among certain elements of our society.

She'd always said that there must be something very bad about money, because those who needed it most never had it, and so many who had it would do such awful things to get more of it. The

Pongo las manos sobre mi corazón y siento que late desesperado. -¿Qué quieres tú? Y me contesta: -Romper tu pecho, echar alas, agujerear las paredes, atravesar las casas, volar, loco, a través de la ciudad, encontrarle, ahuecar su pecho y juntarme al suyo.

Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.'

'Beyond Glory' is responsible for this wave that I've been fortunate enough to ride for the last few years. And that I did primarily because I didn't know what else to do. You might say I did it out of desperation.

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'

I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

I was desperate for comedy to seep into me somehow, convinced that being surrounded by it would give me the confidence to go onstage myself.

I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.

Looting speaks to a lack of economic opportunities - frankly, we all would loot, too, if our families' continued survival depended on it.

I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.