Desperation Quotes

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.

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.

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

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

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

If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.

I was wrong, Gabby, and I'll apologize for it forever if you want me to. But the truth is I couldn't face you. If I came to you and you sent me away, if I knew for certain that you didn't want me anymore...God in heaven, Gabriella Waverly, I've never been so bloody afraid of a lass before.

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.

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 ?

He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn’t come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.

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

As a species we're doomed by hope, then?

You could call it hope. That, or desperation.

But we're doomed without hope, as well, said Jimmy.

Only as individuals, said Crake cheerfully.

If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.

Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength.

education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation

Hope is an enthusiastic assurance.

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

There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.

The young doe, Marena, said, "In this very hour many of us are going to die. Perhaps I shall be one of them.