#desperation

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#continual #desperation #live #men #state

I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation. ↗

— Victor Salva

#actions #because #believe #by-product #controversial

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#brings #deadlines #desperation #i #i am

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#catholic #desperation #go #heaven #heretic

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

#heartbroken #sadness #life

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

#humor #humor

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love #reason #violence #love

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

— Sue Miller

#empathy #unkindness #empathy

Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#desperation #galt-niederhoffer #life #light #love

...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

#depression #desperation #meaning #death