Desperation Quotes

“When they face desperation... human beings become animals.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-dûr was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare. Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. For he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung.

From all his policies and webs of fear and treachery, from all his stratagems and wars his mind shook free; and throughout his realm a tremor ran, his slaves quailed, and his armies halted, and his captains suddenly steerless, bereft of will, wavered and despaired. For they were forgotten. The whole mind and purpose of the Power that wielded them was now bent with overwhelming force upon the Mountain. At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Courage comes from the belly - all else is desperation.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“I was shaking so hard, I could barely get the door unlocked. I just got the door shut behind me when I sank to my knees and fell apart. I cried so hard I was nearly convulsing. I had never felt such raw emotions in my life. I felt like someone had ripped my heart out of my chest and tore it to pieces. I curled into a ball on the floor and tried desperately to disappear. But no matter how small I got, I was still here. I still existed. And for a short while, I thought I had mattered to someone. I guess I was wrong. I mattered to no one.”
― Dakota Madison, Be Good

“You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“No, if your life is without pain and anger and desperation then you are living it all wrong. You are not living at all.”
― Shaun Hick, The Ghost And Its Shadow

“The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.”
― Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie

“Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.”
― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Paris

“Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot.

'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Ever After

“الغيرة : هي الحب في ملابس الحرب
و اليأس : هو الحب في ملابس الحداد”
― أنيس منصور, اثنين .. اثنين

“Marena looked at all of them out of her big, calm, shining eyes. "Love is no nonsense," she said. "It has to come.”
― Felix Salten, Bambi: A Life in the Woods

“The young doe, Marena, said, "In this very hour many of us are going to die. Perhaps I shall be one of them.”
― Felix Salten, Bambi: A Life in the Woods

“The desperation in his voice was misplaced and as his eyes danced over my face I knew he was just as broken as I was. That kiss, those caresses—the feeling of his skin against mine had shattered our perfect friendship. There was no turning back now; having him was the only thing that would make me whole.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Flawed Perfection

“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.”
― Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass

“...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.”
― Derek Raymond, He Died With His Eyes Open

“People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“هذا المريض كان مصمماً على الموت, لانه يعتبر الموت وحده الرد على الاهانة التي وجهت اليه”
― Abdul Rahman Munif, الآن هنا.. أو شرق المتوسط مرة أخرى

“المشكلة انني فقدت الثقة, و ربما احتاج الى وقت طويل من أجل جمع الشظايا التي أصبحتها, و محاولة معرفة ما يمكنني عمله.”
― Abdul Rahman Munif, الآن هنا.. أو شرق المتوسط مرة أخرى

“ومهما تتالت أمام عيونها صور العجز و الفشل والهزيمة فإنها تظل متثاقلة إلى الأرض تنتظر حدوث المعجزة و ظهور القائد المخلص . . و تتسامر في هويته و شخصيته, فلعله المهدي المنتظر . . . ولعله . . . ولعله!!؟”
― ماجد عرسان الكيلاني, هكذا ظهر جيل صلاح الدين وهكذا عادت القدس

“Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Dear brother," Number Two replied, "I can eat shit, I just don't like the taste.”
― Mo Yan, The Garlic Ballads

“At 6:15 she was standing on her front porch watering gardenias and watching another line of thunderstorms split and go around her. The same thing happened almost every day. Some days they came so close all she could smell was the rain. The wind whipped up dust from the fields until it drove like buckshot into the shuddering mesquites, and Clara Nell started to pray. 'Jesus,' she whispered. 'Jesus, Jesus....' But the only thing that came out of the sky was her topsoil. Every day the wind took a little more, and it hadn't rained in almost a year.”
― Andrew Geyer, Whispers in Dust and Bone: Andrew Geyer

“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.”
― D.R. Silva, It's All About Jesus: What They Never Told You in Church

“New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one goes outside without letting me know. I had these horrible images in my head of kids being restrained against their wills, of kids crying my name out, begging me to help them when I was powerless. Desperate times… Lord, my soul called out. Lord…somehow that’s as far as I could get. I didn’t have the words.”
― Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass

“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.”
― Chris Galford, The Hollow March

“I swung my hips around like I unscrewed at the waist.”
― Amber Dawn, Sub Rosa

“Just then Carter burst through the door of my room. His hair was wild and he had a frantic look in his eyes. 
I bolted up in bed, "What's wrong?" 
"Eva." He dropped to his knees at the edge of my bed and grasped my hips with both of his palms. He laid his head in my lap and I ran my fingers through his hair. 
"I knew something was wrong when I left. I knew we weren't right. I tried to go home. I tried to workout, get work done, go to bed. My bed sheets feel empty when you're not there. Your heartbeat helps me sleep. Your breath soothes my soul. I know you're mad, but, please don't leave. Don't run on me Eva, I love you, more than I knew I could ever love anyone. When we're apart I think of nothing but you. You're my everything.”
― Adriane Leigh, Steel and Lace: The Complete Series

“Desperate times call for desperate measures.”
“I don’t care how desperate you are.”
― Maya Bode, Tess Embers

“He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.”
― Sarah Winter, Snowbound