When all seems hopeless, cross your fingers and stick with the secular prayer.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack.

Desperation is a good word, but just working smarter and doing the little things, especially in our own zone, will take care of everything else.

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.

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the...

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...

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

There are times when you don’t belong and you think you’re going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan. The plan was I would leave my...

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be...

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

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the...

Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.

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.

But she stopped herself. That wouldn’t make it right. You didn’t forgive because it was the only choice you thought you had. That didn’t make it forgiveness, that made it desperation. She’d always been too...

Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate.

Jimmy, when he was here, didn’t show anywhere near the desperation that we needed him to. We were a little disappointed. Actually, we were a lot disappointed in that. Then he went (back to Springfield)...

You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning.You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night.But you can tell how popular Jesus...

It’s not a sign of panic or desperation, there’s no downside to this at all. He might be the right guy in the right spot this weekend.

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

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...

Brianna peered through the large window into the sea of plexiglass cradles. Each infant, so small and precious, belonged to someone. Someone who cared for them. Someone who loved them. Brianna sniffled and turned away,...

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

It’s like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?

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

If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive an ideal society which men can reach if only they do what is necessary to attain it,...

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only – still, I left.

People who get offended by your not saying ‘Thank you!’ … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.

Diseases desperate grown,By desperate appliance are relieved,Or not at all.

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...

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that’s what being a parent is...

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...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other’s humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation...

If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle...

You’re gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives...

For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants — there will only continue to be the hard and painful lessons you...

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

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...

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

But just because you must sell quickly doesn’t mean you have to let your property go under desperation terms, … Tips and Traps When Selling a Home.

The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.

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...

These last few months Vida had started believing in all kinds of strange things she’d have laughed at when we lived back in Avalon. She’d tried every spell she could find in the dusty old...

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

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

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

Happiness isn’t something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger…these are the concerns that fill her days.

As a species we’re doomed by hope, then?You could call it hope. That, or desperation.But we’re doomed without hope, as well, said Jimmy.Only as individuals, said Crake cheerfully.