Quotes About Desperation

Desperate men are dangerous. And I do know that the United States is not ready to go to war against Japan. Our navy isn't ready and our air force isn't ready.

Their violence, plus the southward creep of the Sahara Desert, were driving people like Kiah to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean in inflatable dinghies.

Así que primero impides que consiga trabajo y luego me amenazas con meterme en la cárcel por no tenerlo. Supongo que me enviarán a un campo de trabajo, ¿verdad? Entonces sí que estaría empleada, solo que no me pagarían. Me encanta el comunismo, ¡es tan lógico! ¿Por qué habrá gente tan desesperada por escapar de él, me pregunto yo?

Then the Nazis offer them hope, and they ask themselves: What have I got to lose?

A Ned se le antojó una visión triste: una meretriz envejecida esforzándose al máximo por sacar partido a sus decrépitos encantos con tal de retener el afecto de un sacerdote viejo, corrupto y barrigudo. Algunas veces, Ned tenía la sensación de vivir en un mundo en descomposición.

Ethel kissed as if she had one minute left to live.

Then—as he was talking—a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do...

And gone the Godless destiny of death and desperation, and gone the madness of a life committed to uncare, and gone the tears and terror of the brutal days and endless nights where time alone would rule.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

Gave my money all to you, took my watch and pawned it, too.

And dreamed about death in the staggering particular, death as if death were still never yet heard of while something was ringing, she gasping, dissolving, slipping off into void while thinking over and over, I am not going to be, I will die, I won't be, and forever and ever, oh, Papa, don't let them, oh, don't let them do it, don't let me be nothing forever and melting, unraveling, ringing, the ringing—

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

Insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal.

Beggars mounted run their horse to death.

I had most need of blessing, and "Amen"Stuck in my throat.