#desperation

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left. ↗

— Mihail Drumeş

#giving-up #leaving #love #separation #solitude

The truth is, living in any society is difficult. Those who become desperate with a fractured sense of security are much more prone to being taken advantaged of. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#money #society #survival #money

Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation. ↗

— Edie Falco

#desperation #i #open #probably #well

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#believed #change #desperation #drastic #drastic change

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. ↗

— Lee Child

#another #answer #become #book #desperation

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it's because he never quite felt that he deserved to receive it. He was a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself. What looked like gentle contours from a distance were in fact sheer cliffs. Sometimes only a little of him was crazy, sometimes nearly all of him, but, as an adult, he was never entirely not crazy. What he'd seen of his id while trying to escape his island prison by way of drugs and alcohol, only to find himself even more imprisoned by addiction, seems never to have ceased to be corrosive of his belief in his lovability. Even after he got clean, even decades after his late-adolescent suicide attempt, even after his slow and heroic construction of a life for himself, he felt undeserving. And this feeling was intertwined, ultimately to the point of indistinguishability, with the thought of suicide, which was the one sure way out of his imprisonment; surer than addiction, surer than fiction, and surer, finally, than love. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#david-foster-wallace #desperation #love #mental-illness #self-confidence

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else. ↗

— James Stewart

#else #go #got #had #i