Quotes About Desperation

They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.

When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

Desperate people are the most dangerous

The worst products of what I'm describing are almost basket cases—can't make decisions about anything, or leave them until the last possible second and then leap at them like desperate animals.

Se caminhasses num terreno plano, se tivesses a boa vontade de caminhar e desses apesar disso passos à rectaguarda, então tratar-se-ia de um caso desesperado; mas como sobes um pendor tão escarpado como tu próprio visto de baixo, os passos para trás só podem ser provocados pela natureza do terreno e não tens que desesperar.

St. Francis is no help, he won't stop the tears bursting out of my two eyes, the sniffling and choking and the God oh Gods that have me on my knees with my head on the back of the pew before me and I'm so weak with the hunger and the crying I could fall on the floor and would you please help me God or St. Francis because I'm sixteen today and I hit my mother and sent Theresa to hell and wanked all over Limerick and the county beyond and I dread the millstone around my neck.

but a man that drinks the money for a new baby is gone beyond the beyonds as my mother would say.

and the small crowd of people outside the door of the priest's house. They're waiting to beg for any food left over from the priests' dinner. There in the middle of the crowd in her dirty gray coat is my mother. This is my mother begging...

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you're desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there's the least resistance, you lash yourself.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning—both throw up their arms.

Thin, without fever, not cold, not warm, with empty eyes, without a shirt, the young man under the stuffed quilt heaves himself up, hangs around my throat and whispers in my ear, Doctor, let me die.

It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they had made him go into the room and left him alone there, where he had ten different ways of killing himself. At the same time, though, he asked himself, this time looking at it from his own point of view, what reason he could have to do so. Because those two were sitting there in the next room and had taken his breakfast, perhaps?

when I try to write down something like the following, the swords whose points surround me in a circle, begin slowly to approach the body, it's the most complete torture; when they begin to graze me, I don't mean pierce, when they merely begin to graze me it's already so terrible that I immediately, at the first scream, betray you, myself, everything.

His last words to Robert Klopstock are 'Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Gaunt, without any fever, not cold, not warm, with vacant eyes, without a shirt, the youngster heaved himself up from under the feather bedding, threw his arms around my neck, and whispered in my ear: 'Doctor, let me die.

He had vented all his woes and now they might as well see the few rags that covered his body, after which they could carry him away.

How could a man not be sickened when the felt in his mouth had been gnawed and drooled on by more than a hundred men as they lay dying?

His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.

Desafortunadamente el inconveniente principal, ajeno a los casos mismos, es que parece que espiritualmente estoy imposibilitado para contraer matrimonio. Esto se puede comprobar en el hecho de que desde el instante en que tomo esa determinación, no puedo dormir, siento que la cabeza me hierve día y noche, una gran desesperación e irascibilidad se apoderan de mi, y al caminar me tambaleó de un lado a otro (p. 66)

Your indifference is driving me crazy.

Pero al mismo tiempo no olvidaba recordar de vez en cuando que reflexionar serena, muy serenamente, es mejor que tomar decisiones desesperadas.

Reflexões frias, mesmo as muito frias, são melhores do que decisões desesperadas.

Gaunt, without any fever, not cold, not warm, with vacant eyes, without a shirt, the youngster heaved himself up from under the feather bedding, threw his arms around my neck, and whispered in my ear: Doctor, let me die.