Despair quotes

“What should I tell them? If they don’t want to die remember to knock?”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Louanne Johnson

“- Whispers DiTullio: To tell you the truth, I'm a little concerned.
- Frank Sheeran: [narrating] Whenever anybody says they're a little concerned, they're very concerned.
- Whispers DiTullio: As a matter of fact, I'm really more than a little concerned.
- Frank Sheeran: [narrating] And when they say they're more than a little concerned, they're...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Herman - Whispers DiTullio
Robert De Niro - Frank Sheeran

“Those were not welcome days. We buried sons, brothers, mothers, fathers, fiancés. Clocks ticked, but time did not pass. The sun rose and the sun set, but the shadows remained. When once there was sound, now there was silence. What once was whole, now was shattered.”
Kate Mara - Annie Cantrell

“- Marion Silver: When are you coming home?
- Harry Goldfarb: Soon.
- Marion Silver: When?
- Harry Goldfarb: Soon, you holding out alright?
- Marion Silver: Harry... can you come today?
- Harry Goldfarb: Yeah... I'll come today.”

Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Marion Silver
Jared Leto - Harry Goldfarb

“Most of these young girls today don't know their cooch from a hole in the wall. See, that's why I dress... and rest, cause love don't live here anymore.”
Tyra Ferrell - Jessie

“- Quinn Harris: How do you want it?
- Robin Monroe: Excuse me?
- Quinn Harris: Do you want it sugar-coated, or right between the eyes?
- Robin Monroe: You Pick.
- Quinn Harris: We got no landing gear, so we can't take off. Lightning fried the radio, so we can't call for help. AirSea with try a rescue mission but without a beacon to hone in on...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harrison Ford - Quinn Harris
Anne Heche - Robin Monroe

“There is no fuckin' ice cream in your fuckin' future.”
Bill Moseley - Otis

“Life's a mess, Sara. It's... it's chaos personified.”
Molly Shannon - Eve

“There's a kind of freedom in being completely screwed... because you know things can't get any worse.”
Matthew Broderick - Clark Kellogg

“This great evil, where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might've known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Dee Smith - Pvt. Train

“- Sgt. Emil Foley: You can forget it! You're out!
- Zack Mayo: Don't you do it! Don't! You... I got nowhere else to go! I got nowhere else to… I got nothin' else.”
Louis Gossett Jr. - Sgt. Emil Foley
Richard Tiffany Gere - Zack Mayo

“Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to breakbad.”
Giancarlo Esposito

“We try and hold on to some kind of ideals, when everything - ideals, hope, everything is being destroyed.”
Millie Perkins - Anne Frank

“- Cobby: How can things go so wrong? How is it possible? One man killed, two others plugged. I'm out 30 grand. We got a load of rocks we can't even peddle.
- Dix Handley: Quit crying and get me some bourbon.”
Marc Lawrence - Cobby
Sterling Hayden - Dix Handley

“I was so plumb wore out for awhile I didn't seem to believe in nothin' no more. But, now my clothes are startin' to dry and I'm beginnin' to believe again. I guess that's the way the Earth feels when she's wet. But, the Sun will start dryin' her out and she'll start callin' to me again, just the way Nona does sometimes.”
Zachary Scott - Sam Tucker

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!”
Ray Milland - Don Birnam

“First love is such sweet despair, Colin.”
Dame Judi Dench - Dame Sybil Thorndike

“- Sam Brenner: Are you OK?
- Violet Van Patten: I'm sitting in my closet and drinking chardonnay from a sippy cup. Do I look ok?
- Sam Brenner: I'm gonna say no.”
Adam Sandler - Brenner
Michelle Monaghan - Violet

“How many times have you lost everything Jack?”
Lena Olin - Bobby Duran

“- Lavinia Meredith: It makes you sound desperate.
- Anthony Meredith: Well, I am fucking desperate.”
Natasha Wightman - Lavinia Meredith
Tom Hollander - Anthony Meredith

“I've traveled too far and seen too much to ignore the despair in the galaxy. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force.”
Max von Sydow - Lor San Tekka

“I feel so tempted. I feel so tempted to despair. I'm afraid.”
Andrew Garfield - Rodrigues

“For the country's good we must be ruthless. We can't afford to be just. We'd have to rule by terror. You know what that is? Terror is nothing but despair.”
Wojciech Pszoniak - Robespierre

“You wanna hit me? I would love it if you hit me! I'm married to a Jew, I've got nothing to lose!”
Amy Poehler - Cricket Feldstein

“In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the outrageousness of a human...” (continue)(continue reading)
Giovanni Ribisi - Narrator