Desperation Quotes
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"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on"
"I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank."
"I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know."
"Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise."
"If I found 20 dollars on the ground, I’d be willing to bet I’d find someone in desperate need of money that I could give it to. And I’d bet 20 dollars, so even after finding and giving away 20 dollars, I’d have made 20 dollars."
"If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't."
"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."
"The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person."
"Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls."
"I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"I would fight every angel between us until God said, "Yes."
"He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn’t come from bread alone. He desperately needed God."
"If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse."
Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
"Don’t ever let desperation take the seat of inspiration in you! Always live inspired no matter what! For though something might be wrong somewhere, something is always right somewhere! If you have life, be alive and smile!"
"I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup."
"In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what’s there, and not angry for what’s not."
"Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?"
"There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored."
"Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?"
"People change only under two circumstances, one is called Inspiration and the other Desperation!!!! Unfortunately, both give results!"
"If you don’t act out of ‘Inspiration’, ‘Desperation’ will make you act!"
"Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness."
"Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results."
"On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth."
"Don't mistake determination for desperation. Someone who is persistent will stop at nothing to get their way."
"It's slowly breaking her downConsuming her breathFighting her strengthShe doesn't have much timePieces will be the only thing leftOf the will buried withinShe's crumbling down insideCrying out for helpRunning out of lifeA hero should sufficeTo save her from her disguise"
"But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the river. Or a passerby in the mist in"
"Sometimes we just want to be happy such that we don't care who gets hurt"
"We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both."
"Don’t allow your thoughts of frustration allow you to make decisions out of desperation."
"Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster."
"I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be."
"Her eyes bled from venomous anger...Her flower had been gruesomely deflowered...Her life had slowly turned into a blunder...There was no more thinking further....She would rather become a Foetus murderer Than end up a "hopeless" mother....Of course, she found peace in the formerUntil later years of emotional traumaOh, the foetus hunt was forever!The only thing you should abort is the thought of aborting your baby. Stop the hate and violence against innocent children."
"A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair."
"Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn't become the victim of one instead. I don't care what anyone says. I believe him."
"...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?.."
"Controversy is a last resort for the talentless."
"Stop treating your feelings like they are worth so little. I'm your heart, you idiot. Stop treating me like I'm worth so little. Choose me over your brain for once... Please..."
"Do you think he would dare half as much for your love as I have?”“No,” she said. “He never could. That’s why I love him.”“You were desperate for me.”“Desperate. Not happy.” For the first time in all the years she had known him, she truly pitied him. “You can never, ever make me happy. My heart will never rest in you."
"To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of humanity that you’d so hastily give up. Immortality is overrated. It is nothing but the ability to live through it all and not experience a single thing, to eat everything without tasting it at all." Isak’s eyes shone with a desperate need. He wanted, more than anything it seemed, to be like me, when all I wanted was to be like him."
"Claire.It was the last candle left within the Indian Agent. The last glimmer.He curled himself around it to keep it alive, and when the storm inhaled he studied his right hand, could feel her beside him in the carriage that night and, as if he could insist on this, looked up the depression he was calling a road, for the cabman's blindered horse, huffing through the snow, its lanterns swinging. Claire waiting for him on the worn velvet seat."
"Hope is an enthusiastic assurance."
"The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!"
"I turned back looking far away not making contact with anyone and I paced to my room with tears in my eyes, solitude in my heart and nuisance in my mind. I locked my door, rested in bed and slept while still desperate."
"You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need."
"Desperation makes men fearless"
"Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength."
"The truth is, living in any society is difficult. Those who become desperate with a fractured sense of security are much more prone to being taken advantaged of."
John-Talmage Mathis, For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them
"People never know what they are capable of until all other options run out."
"We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing."
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