320 Quotes About Desperation

If the sea could speak, he thought blindly, it would be screaming at him

Such a little childTo send to be a priestling...Icy poverty

I kept a record of my periods, and would ask for the next meeting to be on the full moon, in my apartment. Most of them responded with a nervous negative, and the reason wasn't that they considered my proposition peculiar; it was because I blurted it out as if I was playing Russian roulette. And because of my bulging red-faced blondeness, my coming-apart-at-the-seams ways of speaking, and a pair of eyes whose futile, terrifying shipwreck said it all.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need.

Becoming poor isn’t what breaks you. What breaks you is remembering that you didn’t used to be poor. That’s what breaks you.

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.