Quotes About Desperation

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

You realise that there's nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero, you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad?

You learn from being out of the team, but it makes you desperate for another chance, and when it comes along, you just have to grab it. Don't let go.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

It was terrible to watch one of those things die. Eighteen tons, a hundred feet from wingtip to wingtip, ten men aboard, all fighting to get out. If she spun, the centrifugal force would pin them to the walls... You're trapped inside a metal box. You've got five miles to fall. You know it. [...] Sometimes you could hear them all the way.

Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming down. I'm Arthur Penhaligon, he thought desperately... The crown was wedged tightly upon his head- and Arthur fell silently screaming into darkness.

Some came to me because the inner ache had become unbearable.

Something that you would normally never consider eating, something completely repulsive and ugly and disgusting, something so gross it would make you vomit just looking at it, becomes absolutely delicious if you're starving.

Wir sind Dickhäuter, wir strecken die Hände nacheinander aus, aber es ist vergebliche Mühe, wir reiben nur das grobe Leder aneinander ab, - wir sind sehr einsam. [...] Geh, wir haben grobe Sinne. Einander kennen? Wir müssten uns die Schädeldecken aufbrechen und die Gedanken einander aus den Hirnfasern zerren.

Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.

Ma ciò che chiamiamo disperazione è in realtà la dolorosa impazienza della speranza non alimentata.

We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

I was feeling low. Low is the depressive's euphemism for despair.

I am the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forbode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better.

The angrier the man, the more desperate his love.

I am so close to the edge that I could vomit, so close that it would be easy to jump.

Historically, revival has swept the Christian community when believers became hopeless. Once they realized that their methods and material resources couldn't chase out the darkness, they cried in desperation to God. Their hopelessness drove them to the only hope for humanity – Jesus. Look at the great moments of Biblical history and discover the desperation that precedes the radiance of God's glory.

He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,And cried, A sail! a sail!