Quotes About Desperation

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

I shudder to tell that many of our people, harassed by the madness of excessive hunger, cut pieces from the buttocks of the Saracens already dead there, which they cooked, but when it was not yet roasted enough by the fire, they devoured it with savage mouth

Teori konspirasi hanya dicetuskan oleh orang-orang yang putus asa pada proses pencarian kebenaran.

Besos desesperados que hablaban de finales, más que de comienzos

Beautiful writing becomes beautiful when it loses its harmony and has the desperate power of the ugly.

Ma in quell'occasione imparai un'arte in cui poi sono diventata molto brava. Trattenni la disperazione, la trattenni sul bordo degli occhi lucidi, tanto che Lila mi disse in dialetto: «Non te ne importa?». Non risposi. Provavo un dolore violentissimo, ma sentivo che più forte ancora sarebbe stato il dolore di litigare con lei. Ero

Por outro lado, não estava realmente deprimida. Sentia-me, em vez disso, como se tivesse sido largada num lugar e não fosse capaz de me reencontrar: angustiada, isto é, com os movimento demasiado rápidos e pouco coordenados, com a pressa de quem procura por todo o lado e não tem tempo a perder.

to be healthy, and desperate to be a Natasha at the ball with Prince Andrei or Kuryagin, and instead to be sitting alone, staring at the ceiling, while listening to the echo of the music, the sound of voices, the laughter.

Per favore, per favore, non mi lasciare adesso, se no cado giù.

If nothing could save us, not money, not a male body, and not even studying, we might as well destroy everything immediately.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.