Desperation Quotes

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

A woman's voice answered, "Hello?"Walter cried back at her, "Hello, oh Lord, hello!""This is a recor...

Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, e...

Oh, God,” Wilhelm prayed, “Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do someth...

It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘w...

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with ou...

The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of a...

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction tha...

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244

He felt himself now, as he had often fancied other people, adrift on the stream, and far removed fro...

There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desp...

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to 'LIllustration. Something desp...

Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory... Everything is f...

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a ...

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Lo...

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone...

People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But...

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Ne...

...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so th...

He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o' aught on earth. He thought God could na ...

... desperate times required judicious risk-taking.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own...

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation...

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation...

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothi...

If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive ...

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike pur...

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reac...

I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and san...