#desperation

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#attracting #chance #desperation #good #good chance

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#crime #deprivation #desperation #leave #life

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

— Vita Sackville-West

#continual #desperation #live #men #state

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

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

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

— Anne Rice

#destruction #love #love

But it's such a waste... You came to a place so near the sky but still can't see the stars. ↗

— Detective Conan

#desperation #greed #hopelessly-going-after-something #greed

A woman's voice answered, "Hello?" Walter cried back at her, "Hello, oh Lord, hello!" "This is a recording," recited the woman's voice. "Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message on the wire spool so she may call you when she returns? Hello? This is a recording. Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message -" He hung up. He sat with his mouth twitching. On second thought he redialed that number. "When Miss Helen Arasumian comes home," he said, "tell her to go to hell. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#humor #loneliness #home

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision. ↗

— John Money

#best way #desperation #drastic #for the people #living