Quotes About Desperation

And when I have that feeling, that feeling like I need a handout, desperate, I want to pull my skin off and turn into dust.I want to throw myself back to the angels and tell them to start over,start over without me cause you put the screws in loose, you put the hinges in wrong.

My words were Egyptian hieroglyphics before the discovery of the Rosetta stone; my words were wounded soldiers limping home, guns spent, from a lost battle; my words were dying fish, flipping hysterically as the net is opened and the pile spreads across the boat deck like a slippery mountain trying to become a prairie. My words were, and are, unworthy of Marianne Engel.

I worked at 'Mademoiselle,' and then it shut, and I worked at 'GQ' for three years, during which I was freelancing. I wrote for 'Vibe.' I did music reviews. I wrote for 'Time Out.' I was desperate to get into 'Entertainment Weekly' or 'New York Magazine.' Like, desperate.

I played the mini-tours for a lot of years, and man, you see some weird things out there. There are a lot of desperate people, strange personalities and marginal players, and with that you're going to see some cheating.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

People who have reached France or other prosperous western democracies are still desperate to come to the U.K. Because we live here too, we don't want that desirability to change. So let's have an asylum system that can cope.

Did I pray for death? I did one time. I wanted to die so badly. And I didn't want to die. I wanted to rest, you know. And I knew the only rest I would find is in death.

People who are desperate for Barack Obama to win the presidency are capable of practically anything.

I was pretending to be a fake, a caricature, which is something I'm not, and I was doing it out of desperation and scarcity so I could provide for my family.

When you get to a place where a person is so angry that they can do anything - it's a dark dark place.

I'd rather be dead than dying.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

When your brain and body stop working, it turns into hell. Death is at that point desired. It's the best thing that can happen.

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Everyone is so desperate to get attention for their project, they will do almost anything, and the corporate world has always encouraged this.

If you're desperate enough for attention, any attention will make you feel better.

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

Sequels are desperate.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.