Quotes About Desperation

Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28

It wasn't like he was holding me so much as trying to hold onto something.

A tear wells in his eye. It wells and then spills down his cheek. And despite being pumped with booze and coke, I can read that one eye as clearly as a billboard for cigarettes. Only instead of saying Alive with Pleasure it says, I Have to Go Now.

Dimitri had driven his mother back to Montreux from the Lausanne hospital at dusk on July 2, in his blue Ferrari, on the last day of his father's life. Véra had sat silently for a few minutes and then uttered the one desperate line Dimitri ever heard escape her lips, Let's rent an airplane and crash.

Non ero pazzo. L'ultima speranza si dileguava.

Skrajny wyraz postaw antysynturalnych to ukradkowe samobójstwo porcjowane. Akt rozpoczyna siÄ™ zazwyczaj od niewinnego obgryzania paznokci

Cercavo invano di raccogliere pensieri che scivolavano lungo un piano inclinato minacciando di precipitare, e la perdita di coscienza, l'annientamento mi parvero un'indicibile, insperabile grazia.

But desperation easily turns into fanaticism. People adopt inflexible views as a comforting defense mechanism when they find themselves threatened and overwhelmed by forces they cannot control.

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way.

Arby's: If I was about to be killed, I would eat it.

You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming.

The girl looked like walking death," Nancy recalled. "To leave somebody that sick in a bus terminal? I just didn't get it.

We all know the indignities to which enslaved humans will submit themselves in order to satisfy their addictions, whether for narcotics, alcohol, tobacco, sugar or sex. The desperation, savagery and degradation they publicly display make truffling pigs seem placid and composed by comparison.

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

Oh Christ, I left my world to watch a kid put shoes on a fucked-up weasel. Shoot me Roland, before I breed.

Frightened people live in their own special hell.

He reached out with one bird-claw hand. He closed it around my wrist and I could feel the hot cancer that was loose and raving through his body, eating anything and everything left that was still good to eat.

Very well. I am now a man with now food, with two less fingers and one less toe than I was born with; I am a gunslinger with shells which may not fire; I am sickening from a monster's bite and have no medicine; I have a day's water if I'm lucky; I may be able to walk perhaps a dozen miles if I press myself to the last extremity. I am, in short, a man on the edge of everything.

Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I'll understand myself right into the nearest mental asylum.

What must it be like for a suicide coming down from a high ledge? I'm sure it must be a very sane feeling. That's probably why they scream all the way down.

A DESPERATE MAN, HE'S A READY-MADE VICTIM

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.