In Desperation Quotes
I want to feel embarrassed by my desperation but I’m too busy feeling desperate.
Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.
The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.
If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
He wanted to go home to the place that he hated.
Neil said to me once that in times of desperation, you have to force yourself to make a decision.It's your choice, he said. Us or them. So choose.
Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.
Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.
I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.
...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..
He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.
In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.
Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.
In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.
A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.
She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.
Once again, I felt as I needed to flee or I’d die. That was how my life was panning out.
education without inspiration is only recipe for desperation
No healthy mind could bring itself to torture another human being.
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.
You're desperate, and so am I, ' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244
...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.
Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.
Any nation that teaches and makes it's people look for miracles is making it's people shallow.
education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation
Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack.
People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.
This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens.
If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?
The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.
It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.