Quotes About Desperation

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

An old man was dying, and when he was dead, they would come for Michael; and they would come for her, to make Michael hurt. Elena knew none of this, neither the things of which he was capable nor the danger he'd brought to her door; but Michael would go to hell to keep her safe. Go to hell. Come back burning.

The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.

They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.

Ahora, cuando lo recuerdo, me parece todo muy ridículo y pienso que debería reírme. Pero no lo era. Era un sitio de un dolor indescriptible. Eso es lo que la gente que nunca a estado loca no puede entender. Lo mucho que hiere cada delirio. Lo lejos que parece la realidad del alcance de uno. Es un mundo de desesperación y frustración.

Lewis no contestó. En lugar de eso, se dirigió el revólver a la sien, sonrió como un demente y apretó el gatillo.

My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.

guards, while the ferret searched his pitiful left

her jump off the George Washington Bridge. Her other attorney

I couldn't be here anymore. I couldn't be in me. But I couldn't be anywhere else, either. I had nowhere else to go.

Cathoair reached out with both hands, his last measure of strength, and yanked Mingan's body against his own, pressed his mouth down, broke both their lips between their teeth so the bright taste of blood flavored the kiss.

Something filled the Earl's eyes-not fury, precisely, or desperation, but whatever it was the player's part of Will's mind saw it and recognized it as motivation. And saw in that silence the thing Salisbury wouldn't say. James is a terrible king.

He feels spikes everywhere and rushes to impale himself.

Frantic smiles at parties, overtures that have desperation behind them, miasmic reaches of talk with the lost bore, short cuts to approach through staring, squeezing or kissing all indicate that one cannot live alone. Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

She took two more steps forward. "Tristan!" she cried out loud. "Are you there?" She walked to the edge of the board and stood with her toes at the very edge. "Tristan, where are you?" Her voice echoed back from the concrete walls. "I love you!" she cried. "I love you!

Avevo visto mia madre innamorarsi così spesso... era come se lo volesse disperatamente, come se stesse soffocando e quella fosse la sua aria. Ci ha lasciato per prendere un'ultima boccata, e alla fine l'amore l'ha uccisa. L'amore ti può distruggere. Può portarti via tutto

Ezra blew into Sarah's mouth frantically, knowing it was hopeless, but unwilling to admit it to himself. If he stopped breathing for her, he would have to begin life without her

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Insects move and men like insects. WhyAre we set here, frightened of our reflections,Living in fear yet desperate not to die?

Irma looked around her bedroom desperately. Her eyes fell on the stack of schoolbooks lying on top of her vanity table. Homework! Homework trumped everything! Irma dived toward the desk and scooped up a couple of textbooks. "I want to do my homework!" she wailed. "I have to study. Send Leafy instead of me!" Irma pointed to her pet turtle. "Your turtle is not going on a date with Martin Tubbs!

Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.