Quotes About Desperation

Don't go, papa. Please. Her spoon-holding hand is shaking. First we lost Max. I can't lose you now, too.

He was hanging from one of the rafters in a laundry up near Frau Diller's. Another human pendulum. Another clock, stopped.

The suffering faces of depleted men and women reached across to them, pleading not so much for help – they were beyond that – but for an explanation. Just something to subdue this confusion.

1. The desperate Jews - their spirits in my lap as we sat on the roof, next to the steaming chimneys. 2. The Russian soldiers - taking only small amounts of ammunition, relying on the fallen for the rest of it. 3. The soaked bodies of a French coast - beached on the shingle and sand.

Killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.

because people so poor that they can't even afford shame and I wait.

Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The note: 'No hard feelings, everyone, but I've thought about it and it's just not on, is it? It's nearly on, but not quite. No? Anyway, all the best, C.

Now they were all moving to no effect-just moving, just switching things off and switching things on, just picking things up and putting things down and picking things up and stroking the cat and counting the mugs and fighting for air. It seemed that everything they did had already been done and done, and that everything they thought had already been thought and thought, and that this would never end. Excuse me said panic to each of them in turn. They had no mouth and they had to scream.

At the age of twenty, his artistic dreams frustrated, Hitler was a tramp: park benches, soup queues. Given just a little more talent, perhaps, he would have killed himself, not in the bunker, but in a cosy little studio in Klagenfurt.

Suicide, like Aspirin, like everything else, costs money. And I didn't have any. Unless you're really brave, suicide is always gonna set you back a couple of bob

Assisti hoje a uma cena reveladora", acrescentava o oficial. "Um cavalo foi atingido por uma bomba e caiu na rua. Quando, uma hora mais tarde, passei pelo mesmo lugar, restava apenas o esqueleto. A carne fora arrancada pelas pessoas que viviam nas imediações.

Only a god can save us.

Living with the daily ugliness of slum life, educational castration and economic exploitation, some ghetto dwellers now and then strike out in spasms of violence and self-defeating riots. A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. It is the desperate, suicidal cry of one who is so fed up with the powerlessness of his cave existence that he asserts that he would rather be dead than ignored.

Consequently, many of those who agreed to hide weapons were widows or young, unmarried mothers who desperately needed the money. Most

clings to any straw!

You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

We should always be mindful of the fact that no man is ever very far from the state in which he would readily want to seize a sword or poison in order to bring his existence to an end.

She called this absolute fast because desperate situations require desperate measures.

A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke.

All they have to do is to turn around and shoot. All the people have to do is to lie down and die.

Even when they were rushing, and in Moscow there's always a kind of rush, people lack the desperation of New York.

Muriel and I talked about love as a voluntary commitment, while we each struggled through the steps of an old dance, not consciously learned, but desperately followed. We had learned well in the kitchens of our mothers, both powerful women who did not let go easily. In those warm places of survival, love was another name for control, however openly given

LAURA. Suppose that I was prepared to bear anything, even to being despised and driven out, everything for the sake of being able to keep and control my child, and that I am truthful now when I declare that Bertha is my child, but not yours. Suppose—— CAPTAIN.