#desperation

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#desperation #good-and-bad #good-and-evil #grief #hopelessness

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. ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#desperation #suicide #dreams

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

To hold the rank of responsibility, requires you to make decisions that will not only hurt the enemy…but also your own. And there will come a time when the situation will be absolutely so bleak that every eye will turn to you out of fear and desperation. In that moment, you’ll have to become like the steel of your ship…and make the hardest choices of your life. Because if you don’t, there will be no one is else to do it for you. And you will always be alone in this. ↗

— Commander Paladin Martian Fleet - from Beyond Mars Crimson Fleet

#desperation #military #military-philosophy #rank #resposibility

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

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 supposed to feel like. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#human-nature #parenting #death

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

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. ↗

— Henry Miller

#desperation #face #look #nobody #passing