Quotes About Desperation

God, come down out of the eucalyptus tree outside my window, and tell me who will drown in so much blood.

But once in a while I see a child crying with the deepest of desperation, and I think it is one of the truest sounds a child can make.

But the news reporters had no wish, perhaps no ability, to understand that the fishermen's coastline had been spoiled with toxic waste, that they could not fish as they once had—Americans really did not understand desperation. It was easier, and certainly more pleasing, to view the Gulf of Aden as a lawless place where Somali pirates reigned. A crazy parent, America was. Good and openhearted one way, dismissive and cruel in others.

You could buy a snow blower or a nice wool dress for your wife, but beneath it all people were rats scurrying off to find garbage to eat, another rat to hump, making a nest in broken bricks, and soiling it so sourly that one's contribution to the world was only more excrement.

there was nothing to explain what he felt was happening to him, that he'd been put into a transparent plastic capsule that rose off the ground and was tossed and blown and shaken so fiercely that he could not possibly find his way back to the quotidian pleasures of his past life. Desperately, he did not want this.

You could buy a snow blower or a nice wool dress for your wife, but beneath it all people were rats scurrying off to find garbage to eat, another rat to hump, making a nest in broken bricks, and soiling it so sourly that one's contribution to the world was only more excrement.

In this city of New York, I see children crying from tiredness, which is real, and sometimes from just crabbiness, which is real. But once in a while I see a child crying with the deepest of desperation, and I think it is one of the truest sounds a child can make... I have left the subway car I was riding in so i did not have to hear a child crying that way.

bodies becoming like prisons with the person stuck inside. Screaming, or not screaming, but staring at you like you should do something.

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. People thought love would do it, and maybe it did.

Americans really did not understand desperation.

Rimase seduta al tavolo di cucina, con la schiena curva e la mano posata sul grosso stomaco. Il pensiero che in qualunque momento ne avesse sentito il bisogno avrebbe potuto uccidersi le attraversò la mente. Non era la prima volta in vita sua che ci pensava, ma in precedenza rifletteva sempre sul biglietto da lasciare.

Engoli uma notável poção de veneno - Três vezes seja bendita esta riquíssima ideia! - As entranhas ardem-me. A violência da peçonha galvaniza-me os membros, desfigura-me, atira-me por terra. Morro de sede, sufoco, não posso gritar. É o inferno, a pena capital. Vede como as chamas cobrem tudo! Ardo bastante bem.

The Gospel addresses men as guilty, condemned, perishing criminals. It declares that the most chaste moralist is in the same terrible plight as is the most voluptuous profligate; and the zealous professor, with all his religious performances, is no better off than the most profane infidel. The Gospel contemplates every descendant of Adam as a fallen, polluted, hell-deserving and helpless sinner. The grace which the Gospel publishes is his only hope.

He feels his soul slowly dissolving in a bitter lament for itself, whilst he searches desperately in his memory for a God to whom to offer up his repentance. And he discovers with surprise that he repents of nothing, although it is not clear either, as night closes in, that there is any God prepared to hear him.

Por eso estaba callado y quieto, que era una forma tan buena como otra cualquiera de estar desesperado.

You have a saying in Spain: If all is lost, we may as well jump in the river.

todos aquellos infelices, los soldados que acuden a disparar por las portas, los reclutas de leva, los campesinos sacados de sus casas, los mendigos, la chusma arrancada de tabernas, hospicios y penales que ahora se afana en torno a los cañones, asomados a la boca misma del infierno, corean con rugidos que sí, que vivaspaña, cagüensanpedro y cagüentodo, joder, Santa María, madre de Dios, ruega por nosotros, pecadores.

Y lo gritan, y lo dicen, y lo murmuran borrachos de pólvora, espantados tanto del enemigo como de sí mismos, mientras empujan los cañones, meten las balas y disparan una y otra vez, ciegos, ensordecidos, desesperados ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte, amén, con la certeza súbita de que sólo el más salvaje, el más cruel, el que cargue y dispare y blasfeme y rece con mayor rapidez y eficacia, podrá sobrevivir a la jornada.

En ese último extremo, la única salvación de los vencidos es no esperar salvación alguna.

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

La tristeza no desaparece, pero la desesperación debe ser contenida, pues no honra al que ha partido.

Now that I've lost you it kills me to say I tried to hold on as you slowly slipped away I'm losing the fight I've treated you so wrong Now let me make it right

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.