#desperation

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

— John Geddes

#desperation #love #power #smile #beauty

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. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#desperation #drowning #poetry #suicide #death

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. I'm not saying he did right, and I'm not saying he didn't wrong. All I say is, may neither me nor mine ever have his sore heart, or we may do like things. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#hardship #suffering #suicide #home

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

— Albert Camus

#humor #death

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

#desperation #hope #inspiration #misattributed #tenacity

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#misattributed #tenacity #end

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#acting

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#creating #desperate #desperation #ingredient #interesting

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#beings #desperation #human #human beings #i

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other. ↗

— Laura Dern

#children #dark #desperation #each #i