All Quotes By Tag: Desperation

“We singles live empty lives of quiet desperation and will die alone.”

“If you were mine, I’d never leave you, Prudence. I couldn’t.”

“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.”

“When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

“To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of humanity that you’d so hastily give up. Immortality is overrated. It is nothing but the ability to live through it all and not experience a single thing, to eat everything without tasting it at all.” Isak’s eyes shone with a desperate need. He wanted, more than anything it seemed, to be like me, when all I wanted was to be like him.”

“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don’t necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”

“If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.”

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

“I would fight every angel between us until God said, “Yes.”

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

“Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”