Desperation Quotes - Page 2

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

Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we have lost touch with our beauty within.

But there is nothing more beautiful than being desperate.

And there is nothing more risky than pretending not to care.

The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.

Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.

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.

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.

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it, a low hum like the buzz of a sick bee that resonated with the fragments of a million broken dreams.

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?

Everyone was trying to forget something, but they could never seem to find the way to do it. All they ever seemed to do was make it worse. Such quiet madness, the masses led.

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

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

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

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.

Courage comes from the belly - all else is desperation.

A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.

...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become as mysterious and musical as my first, so that in my last darkness there might not be the same need of understanding anything so far away as the world anymore.