11 Quotes Tagged: desperate

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

I just want to serve and help people and be good to everybody, only it always goes wrong somehow — I think about suicide all the time, every bloody day I want to die and stop this torture, but I go crawling on . . . I'm so Christ-awful bloody lonely I could scream with it for hours on end.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

Desperate people are the most dangerous.

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a
long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

I need love, I've never felt more in need of it than now. I feel so terribly terribly unhappy.

Why do I always have to be helping people . . . and getting no help myself?

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

"Every hour is my last, and," she said desperately,"one can't live one's last hour all one's life!"

Let me sleep at last. I've had misery enough in my life. You said there was nowhere to go to. There is death to go to. I've had misery enough in my life.