Jacques Derrida Quotes

The fish, once escaped from the trap, doesn't go back

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.

I am tempted to keep the car in drive, And leave it all behind...

Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.

A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

I feel like dying when I'm helpless

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" In reality, "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" were probably not Simon Bolivar's last words (although he did, historically, say them). His last words may have been "Jose! Bring the luggage. They do not want us here." The significant source for "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" is also Alaska's source, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The General in his Labyrinth.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

I did what sports were supposed to be like, and I was living in my car. So you know what, fine. I'm gonna talk a bunch of sh*t. I'm gonna pose in a couple of pictures. And I'm gonna break a couple of girl's arms, and I'm not gonna feel the least bit sorry about it because you know what? At least I can feed my dog.

Looks like I’m going to ruin your day, Big Boy. I choose to live my crappy life a little longer. (Susan)

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape