Quotes about Desperation
Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale. sad, sickly face with his fist and knock him out of existence
— Joseph Heller
Nately's death, in fact, almost killed Yossarian too, for when he broke the news to Nately's whore in Rome she uttered a piercing heartbroken shriek and tried to stab him to death with a potato peeler.
— Joseph Heller
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.
— Watchman Nee
She heard enough desperate pleas on the job from dying vics, scared perps, and grieving loved ones to believe the nation of appealing to heaven was somewhat legit.
— Rachel Hauck
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.
— Robert Kiyosaki
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness.
— David Platt
If God does not exist, our lives are ultimately meaningless, valueless, and purposeless despite how desperately we cling to the illusion to the contrary.
— William Lane Craig
The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.
— Francis Chan
If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.
— Timothy Keller
God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!
— Leonard Ravenhill
Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.
— Paul David Tripp