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Quotes About Desperation

Cupid, you worthless bastard, I summon you to human form! (Julian) Gee, I can't imagine why he wouldn't respond to that. (Grace)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And in your world, Captain Scary, that would mean? (Fang) You hit him three times and then you stop. It's in English. Hell, it's in –your- English. You were born then! (Thorn) That was my third hit. (Fang) I have a tumor. I know I have a tumor. I just wish I were mortal so that it could kill me. (Thorn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch enough to tide you over for a bit." – Rosa
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Save me, Shahara. Save me from the lonely nights that never end. (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Lady, right now you could tell me to throw myself under a bus to make you happy, and I'd oblige you. (Xypher)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Have you ever wanted to put your head in a blender and turn on the liquefy switch? (Tate)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
My mother's dying and may not live through the week. So, yes, I'd rather die trying to save her than live with the guilt of wondering if I could have. If you can't understand caring that much for someone you love then you're one coldhearted bastard. (Abbie)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Help me....Hellmouth, oh where art thou, hellmouth? Why have you forsaken me in my hour of desperation? Open quick and I'll throw myself in.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He flipped the channel to another view of the scorpions swarming over a road downtown toward people who were screaming and running to get away from them.' "Welcome to the apocalypse. Ain't she pretty?" – Sundown
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Quinn gave up thinking. If he could take his head off and shove it in a deep freeze right now, he would.' – Quinn
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
~ Dolph Lundgren
When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.
~ Eva LaRue
'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't do it.'
~ Mike Gayle
She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.
~ Paulo Coelho
If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?
~ Steven Erikson
The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.
~ Ted Turner
I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.
~ Kim Harrison
I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.
~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I looked at the faces around me and I knew mine was like theirs. Faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colours draining fast. I had to get away from that town.
~ John Fante
Mi sedetti alla macchina da scrivere e dentro di me si fece il vuoto, un vuoto terribile.
~ John Fante
Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.
~ John Fante
Evanlyn opende haar mond om te schreeuwen... Vreemd, dacht ze, dat ze haar helemaal hierheen hadden gebracht, haar de nacht aan een boom hadden vastgebonden, en haar nu zouden doden. Wat een zinloze manier om dood te gaan.
~ John Flanagan
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
~ John Fowles
don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..
~ John Geddes