Quotes About Desperation

Una vida así requería una autoestima exagerada. Suponía tener cantidades excesivas de esperanza y desesperación, y ponerlas al tuntún, como países tercermundistas del continente de las emociones.

We feel ourselves moving so minusculely against some process, some momentum, that we become inadvertently a part. We feel too small to fight. Desperation, laziness, horror--they all resemble one another in their flickering movements within us, the same thrashing shorthand. Ma cherie, is this our stop? We feel enslaved--is that what it is--in some turning: of milk to rot to dirt and winds and then to what--to sleep? to stars? Time for another constellation!

Agora, eu ia arrastado, nesta fuga em massa, para a morte em comum, para o fogo… Isto vinha das profundezas mais recônditas e tinha acontecido.

They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment.

from a blow. His yellow eyes clung to von Hallstatt. He desperately

It seems as if I could do anything when I'm in a passion. I get so savage, I could hurt anyone and enjoy it. I'm afraid I shall do something dreadful some day, and spoil my life, and make everybody hate me. Oh, Mother, help me, do help me!

A poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm.

She is one of the timid, innocent, humble, creatures who can't push their way, and so get put aside and forgotten, She has tried all sorts of poorly paid work, couldn't live on it decently, got discouraged, sick, frightened, and could see no refuge from the big, bad world but to get out of it while she wasn't afraid to die. A very old story, my dear, new and dreadful as it seems to you.

Había aprendido no solamente la amargura del remordimiento y de la desesperación, sino también la dulzura de la abnegación y del dominio de sí misma.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

They both started laughing in that desperate high-pitched way people laugh when their hearts are broken.

and Junius desperately bought them to prop up the price, nearly wiping himself out.

Hay que hacer algo con todo eso para que no nos destruya, con ese fragor de desesperación, con el inacabable desperdicio, con la furiosa pena de vivir cuando la vida es cruel. Los humanos nos defendemos del dolor sin sentido adornándolo con la sensatez de la belleza

So then Joseph knew that he had no idea how to escape from the darkness closing round him, unless it might be to engineer his own death,...

My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing.

Ryoga to Ranma: 'Desperation Strike' my steely buttocks! I thought you were a fighter!

Florida from its beginnings has served as a catch basin for the world's detritus. It's where you go when your prospects elsewhere have ended, and you've not yet settled into despair, and you still think there's a slight chance you can start over, and no one will notice your previous failings or hold them against you while you gather your bearings and begin again.

Let the soil here below stink and turn to a scarlet muck, and let us crawl through it until our mouths and nostrils fill with it and we drown in it with our hands on each other's throats—I no longer resist this war. I relish it.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

while the hookers and junkies spun like windblown litter in their wake.

Los niños luchaban con desesperación por amar a sus padres. De hecho, antes que odiar a un padre, elegían odiarse a sí mismos.

Nunca se sabe qué desesperadas ideas pueden ocurrírsele a un hombre desesperado; en ocasiones, hasta los más tímidos y previsores se atreven, en tal estado, a los más audaces actos.

I'm sorry, Son / I'm just a poet. I hope this is enough. / If it isn't I'll burn down the house / and give you the ashes.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.