Best 240 quotes in «desperation quotes» category

Was it too much to expect a future?

We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials. We hardly noticed anything but our little family whose ties weren’t loosening at all. In fact, this impending separation only seemed to be binding us together with a double overhand knot, hard to untie and unfailing.

We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked—like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go.

Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.

When all seems hopeless, cross your fingers and stick with the secular prayer.

When your heart's been cut out, how's it going to feel knowing that you're the one who wielded the knife?

We're not going to make it," I said. The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Leslie had said to me when we were discussing Shannon's and Antoinetta's disappearance? 'You're beginning to sound like one of the characters in your books, Adam.' She'd been right. If this were a novel my heroes would have arrived just in the nick of time and saved the day. But real life didn't work like that. Real life had no happy endings. Despite our best efforts, despite my love for Tara [his wife] and my determination to protect her, and after everything we'd been through at the LeHorn house, fate conspired against us. We were still nine or ten miles from home, and night was almost upon us. By the time we got there it would already be too late. I fought back tears. I had the urge just to lie down in the middle of the road and let the next car run over me.

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

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

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

You'll get, with faith and hope what you think can be yours.

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

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

You might even ask, 'Who is this guy to be telling me how to live my life?' And my answer is simple. I’m the guy that is figuring it out just like you. I can’t guarantee that I’m ahead of you in the race - but I do feel it’s my responsibility to help people get into the race, and to stay on track in the race. I know I don’t have it all together. I know that I’m not an expert. I know that I’m not perfect. But I can’t sit by and let men live 'lives of quiet desperation.' (To quote Thoreau) Let’s do this together. Take the flint. Take the steel. Strike. And we will reignite our lives together.

Your arms ache to hold someone -- you move in slow motion from one hug to the next so you won't jostle the warm feeling off your shoulders before the next hug comes your way. Your heart feels hollow -- that emptiness screams like an addiction to be filled even if it means doing hurtful, selfish things to get a fix. "I understand," I tell him. "Because I've been lonely, too.

You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

You need to wake up and realize that you deserve more, and there is more waiting for you out there. Stop settling; it only tarnishes and corrodes your soul.

You told me, if something is not used it is meaningless, and took my temperature, which I had thought to save for a more difficult day. In the mirror, every night, the same face, a bit more threadbare, a dress worn too long. The moon was out in the cold, along with the restless, dissatisfied wind that seemed to change the location of the sycamores. I expected reproaches because I had mentioned the word love, but you only accused me of stealing your pencil, and sadness disappeared with sense. You made a ceremony out of holding your head in your hands because, you said, it could not be contained in itself.

You scream it in everything you do. You’re holding on to what happened because you think that’s all you have.” “It is all I have.” “Find more

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't do anything.

So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.