Despair quotes

“What I do find pathetic is people who, as soon as they hear that the world is ending, they rush out and try to hook up with someone like it was closing time at 'Studio 54'.”
Don McKellar - Patrick Wheeler

“Desperate times call for desperate measures.”
Karan Ashley - Aisha Campbell

“I've given my life to art and from here on in, the only art I will get anywhere near are the pictures I draw on the pavement hoping passersby will throw nickels in my hat. I guess the long on the short of it: I wish I'd never been born.”
Peter MacNicol - David Langley

“- Lyle Rogers: Chuck, this isn't really a good time to get depressed.
- Chuck Clarke: You're right, I don't know what's wrong with me.
- Lyle Rogers: Look at the upside: we're not livin' lives of quiet desperation.”
Warren Beatty - Lyle Rogers
Dustin Hoffman - Chuck Clarke

“There's nothing noble about crushing desperate men.”
Dennis Quaid - Bowen

“- China Blue: Are you that desperate or that horny?
- Bobby Grady: Uh... no. Married.”
Kathleen Turner - China Blue
John Laughlin - Bobby Grady

“Time wounds all heels.”
Marisa Tomei - Liz

“He was like a man struck by lightening. One moment of rapture, followed by decades of despair.”

Theresa Russell - Tracy

“Upset? Why should I be upset? You've only ruined my life. Why should I be upset?”

Robert De Niro - David Merrill

“Now listen to me, you two. I want you to understand just one thing. If you ever expect to get anything out of me, you're going to be human enough and decent enough to take Shirley into this house to live. I'll pay for her board and her clothes.”

Charles Sellon - Uncle Ned Smith

“One morning you wake up, the guy is gone, the saxophone's gone, all that's left behind is a pair of old socks and a tube of toothpaste, all squeezed out. So you pull yourself together. You go on to the next job, the next saxophone player. It's the same thing all over again. You see what I mean?”
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

“Oh, fate... the last refuge of the truly desperate!”
Gretchen Mol - Anna

“Desperation: it's the world's worst cologne.”
Sheila Kelley - Debbie Hunt

“- Steve Freeling: Taylor, what about Diane and the kids?
- Taylor: They are your power, and you are theyre's.
- Steve Freeling: Are things desperate, Taylor?
- Taylor: What you see as desperate, I see as inevitable.”
Craig T. Nelson - Steve Freeling
Will Sampson - Taylor

“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.”

John Marwood Cleese - Brian Stimpson

“When you're hanging on by your fingernails, you can't go waving your arms around.”
Ed Harris - Bud Brigman

“- John Bubber: You sure we can pull this off?
- Bernie LaPlante: John, you're sitting on a ledge about to jump to your doom. I'm about to go to prison. What exactly have we got to lose?”
Andy Garcia - John Bubber
Dustin Hoffman - Bernie LaPlante

“- Gareth Peirce: It's not the stairs that are killing your father.
- Gerry Conlon: Aye, what is it then?
- Gareth Peirce: It's your lack of faith.”
Emma Thompson - Gareth Peirce
Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon