Quotes About Desperation

THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA (Theodore Gericault, 1791–1824)

think that it is most probable that Beddoes, pushed to desperation and believing himself to have been already betrayed, had revenged himself upon Hudson, and had fled from the country with as much money as he could lay his hands on. Those are the facts of the case, Doctor, and if they are of any use to your

Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her. It isn't fair, she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head.

she might never leave the road at all, but just hurry on and on until the wheels of the car were worn to nothing and she had come to the end of the world.

It makes my heart ache to see people living such fine lives when I have to sit here like a widow in black, waiting to hear from my fine breadwinner

I hope it doesn't get worse. But even if it gets worse, I won't regret it. I would rather be dead than live in the factory anymore. Not much difference as they just want you to work to death anyway. And you can't even think there or talk. but I have to think. I have to talk. I have to talk about what I think.

Why do I think you did it? Because you were trapped upside down in a tankful of water. Because you were weak and in pain. Because you were tired of fighting.

Cuando era niña, cuando era adolescente, los libros me salvaron de la desesperación: eso me convenció de que la cultura era el valor más alto.

They keep us so hungry that we can't do anything but worry about where our next meal is coming from. They keep us hungry for so long that we are grateful for whatever little food we get.

Can such a man, so desperate, still boast he can save his life from the flashing bolts of god? If all such violence goes with honor now why join the sacred dance?

Stop—in the name of god, if you love your own life, call off this search! My suffering is enough.

You drive me back down my desperation—that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life.

shorn of everything—you're their only hope.

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of our desperation and wishful thinking?

The height of humanity should give birth to greater good. We should be in desperation of "CHANGE" but not in spawning evil, because by doing so, humanity remains shackled.

Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.

The lie at the heart of that bad faith was the desperate attempt to avoid facing the implications of the plain and utterly unwelcome fact that there is no way to make a middle-class lifestyle sustainable

If the situation was hopeless, their propoganda would be unessasary

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.