Quotes About Desperation

My dad would do horrible things to me, but I was so desperate for his affection and his approval that I would keep coming back.

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

I am dying of hunger.

I left home because I was hungry.

It's an awful feeling, being hungry.

I'm tired of dying.

así fue como apareció, de la nada, mientras Rand rogaba por el regreso de su hija: una sonrisa de asesino.

What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.

In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: I wish I'd be murdered. Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive.

So there it came, out of nowhere, as Rand begged for his daughter's return: a killer smile.

I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured. But I was out of places to write, slicing myself between my toes—bad, cry—like a junkie looking for one last vein. Vanish did it for me. I'd saved the neck, such a nice prime spot, for one final good cutting. Then I turned myself in.

Shotgun blasts in a small hallway. The panicked, jaybird cries of my mother, still trying to save her kids with half her head gone.

I've basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me.

In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: I wish I'd be murdered. Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive.

can say that?" I do want to start over with the right man, the New Nick. Things are looking bad for him, dire. Only I can save Nick from me. But I am trapped. "If you ever left here and I didn't

On a September morning, just after school started, I'd gotten Diane's .44 Magnum and held it, babylike, in my lap for hours. What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.

Three girls until, at last, their baby boy. As I sipped my bourbon and cracked peanuts, I pondered the growing desperation the Nashes must have felt each time a child popped out without a penis.

this town is sometimes too much, so desperate and so in denial.

I do know that framing your husband for your murder is beyond the pale of what an average would do. But it's so very necessary.

rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

There isn't a replacement toddling around; you're it. It makes you desperate to be flawless, and it also makes you drunk with the power. In such ways are despots made.