Despair quotes

“Please don't let them kill me. I... I promise I won't be Tutsi anymore.”

Cara Seymour - Pat Archer

“Everybody at the bottom crosses paths eventually in a pool of desperation and you're waiting for them...”

Amy Adams - Sydney Prosser

“You wish to know what I am? To you, I am this: the cry of the abandoned child. The whimper of the whipped beast. I am the face that stares back at you from the shadows of your mirror. The hollowness at the heart of all your hopes, Alexandra. I am despair.”
Andrew Divoff - The Djinn

“You set your heart too much on frivolous things and then crash down into despair when you don't get them.”

Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“Sam, whatever you've been through, multiply that by 1000 and you'll have a vague conception of where I'm at.”
Brad Pitt - Jerry Welbach

“I never realized till now how ugly I am, because you're so beautiful... I'm not a man! I'm not a beast! I'm about as shapeless as the man in the moon!”

Charles Laughton - The Hunchback Quasimodo

“When you're desperate, that's when you got no choice.”
Johnny Depp - John Dillinger

“- Terry Collins: Kate, I - I'm a desperate man.
- Kate Wheeler: Desperate?
- Terry Collins: Yes.
- Kate Wheeler: You don't know the meaning of the word. Desperate is when you wake up in the morning and you wish you hadn't. It's knowing that every time you get behind the wheel of a car you're only a tree away from ending the empty charade that...” (continue)(continue reading)
Billy Bob Thornton - Terry Collins
Cate Blanchett - Kate Wheeler

“As perfect as things can be in this valley of tears.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Vivian Thompson

“- Rastafarian: Man, why not say what you're looking for? Dédé is not the only one who can show you.
- Dr. Richard Walker: Why don't you tell me what I'm looking for?
- Rastafarian: The white lady. Isn't that so?
- Dr. Richard Walker: Yes.
- Rastafarian: Heavy. Now I see the desperate man.”

Thomas M. Pollard - Rastafarian
Harrison Ford - Dr. Richard Walker

“- Geno Scarlatti: Where's grandpa?
- Mama Assunta: He's drowning himself because I hid his cigarettes.”
Jason Presson - Geno Scarlatti
Renata Vanni - Mama Assunta

“Wake up, and smell the desperation.”
Adam Brody - Dustin Knight

“- Leslie Glass: Everybody I know is desperate, except for you.
- Roberta Glass: I'm desperate.
- Leslie Glass: Ha!
- Roberta Glass: Well, sort of.”
Laurie Metcalf - Leslie Glass
Rosanna Arquette - Roberta Glass

“I've thought of a wonderful present for you... Shall I give you despair?”
Toshiyuki Morikawa - Sephiroth

“When you spend enough time around the chemistry of desperation, you come to recognize the smell. One desperate element is combustible. More than one desperate element is lethal.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“I guess if marriage is the death of hope; then, the night before marriage, there's still hope.”
Tony Roberts - Maxwell

“Desperate ducks commit desperate acts!”
Chip Zien - Howard T. Duck

“- Pete: It's four in the fucking morning!
- Shaun: It's Saturday!
- Pete: No, it's not. It's fucking Sunday. And I've got to go to fucking work in four fucking hours ‘cause every other fucker in my fucking department is fucking ill! Now can you see why I'm so fucking angry?
- Ed: Fuck, yeah!”
Peter Serafinowicz - Pete
Nick Frost - Ed

“How many cops you know, huh? Got nothing. Divorced, alcoholic, kids won't talk to them anymore, can't get it up. Sitting there in their little apartments, alone in the dark, playing lollipop with a service revolver?”
Richard Tiffany Gere - Dennis Peck

“What's going on, Andy? You're sinking into a pit of self-pity, defeatism, and alcohol... and you're enjoying it!”
Madolyn Smith Osborne - Elizabeth Farmer

“- Renee Pelagie: Desperation has driven me past etiquette, all the way to frenzy.
- Royer-Collard: My schedule is not subject to the whim of lunatics.
- Renee Pelagie: I beg to differ, you work in a madhouse. Your every waking moment is governed by the insane.”
Jane Menelaus - Renee Pelagie
Sir Michael Caine - Royer-Collard

“I don't know what day it is, I've lost track. Henry thinks some miracle may save us yet, he's foolish. The cemetery's full, they're burning the bodies. My firstborn, my daughter.”

Jane Alexander - Carol Wetherly

“We came to Redbud filled with hopes and dreams of a better life. And basically, we've seen those hopes and dreams crushed and battered before our very eyes.”
Chevy Chase - Andy Farmer

“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”
Jim Caviezel - Edmond Dantes

“On the good days, I feel like I get it, like it all makes sense. I can stay in the moment, I don't have to control everything in the future, and I believe everything is gonna work out fine. On the bad days I just want to grab the phone and start dialing numbers. I want to pull my hair and run through the streets screaming.”
Erika Christensen - Caroline Wakefield