#desperation

"I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know."

"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."

"If I found 20 dollars on the ground, I’d be willing to bet I’d find someone in desperate need of money that I could give it to. And I’d bet 20 dollars, so even after finding and giving away 20 dollars, I’d have made 20 dollars."

"If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't."

"Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise."

"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."

"The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person."

"Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls."

"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on"