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.

Inside the maize mill, the owners no longer had any use for a broom. The hungry people kept the floors cleaner than a wet mop. At the beginning of the month, the mill was packed...

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

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

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...

Your arms ache to hold someone — you move in slow motion from one hug to the nextso you won’t jostle the warm feeling off your shouldersbefore the next hug comes your way.Your heart feels...

There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk, and be responsive to questions,...

The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the projects that stretched for blocks along the drive. Something inside her sank at...

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

Maybe it is desperation,” I say. “Maybe we can’t let things fall apart without trying. We can’t let go of the people we love.”He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive...

Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of...

I swung my hips around like I unscrewed at the waist.

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.

I think our last kiss was meant to be quick and chaste, but after the first touch of his lips fire leaped up and roared through my belly. My fingers yanked him close, digging into...

The bottom line is it’s hard to simulate that desperation. But the main thing is we make sure we have good habits because there are still 10 days to go before potentially the first round...

But there is nothing more beautiful than being desperate.And there is nothing more risky than pretending not to care.

People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.

Desperation is often more powerful than inspiration.

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn’t easy to find a person who’d gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What – oh, what – does that say?

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength.

SONG OF DAWNI saw the sun rise by accident.It was a horrible sight.Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refugein a moist pillow, and lay there, alone,at the dawn of another day,that brought me closer to...

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

Obviously it was desperation time, down nine with three minutes to go. You’ve got to bring it all out.

A month ago it would have been my dream just to be in his bedroom watching a movie, but now it’s torture because I want so much more. It’s like my entire conscious state has...

education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation

I don’t see enough desperation.

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

But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the...

I talked to a calzone for fifteen minutes last night before I realized it was just an introverted pizza. I wish all my acquaintances were so tasty.

It’s not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it’s your friends

I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that’s it. I’m awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light...

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o’ aught on earth. He thought God could na be harder than men; mappen not so hard; mappen as tender as a mother; mappen tenderer....

This desperation tactic, by those who seek to dismantle the reconstruction process, will only solidify the determination of the United States and the international community to rid Iraq of these henchmen of Hussein’s brutal regime...

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

We just played with a lot of energy at the end. Obviously, it was desperation time. We were very fortunate tonight.

If it occurs to U.S. imperialism, in its desperation, to invade Venezuela, a 100-years’ war will begin,

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

…don’t you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don’t you covet that power?..

Tonight I think we picked up our desperation and urgency. We need to do that, or else we were going to be in trouble.