George Eliot Quotes

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness.

You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark

She was scared Unprepared Lost in the dark Falling apart I can't survive Without you by my side We're gonna be alright This is what happens when Two worlds collide.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

When there's a war, people get married.

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

We are not surprised to learn that panic and confusion are hourly gaining ground in Britain.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

'Old Town Road' came after a period of feeling like I was out of options. I was living with my sister. She was pretty much fed up with me being there.

If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

When folks are in desperate times - say, like being stuck in the middle of a long-running interplanetary war - they grasp onto anything that might keep them afloat.

No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers