Bono Quotes

Save me from this road I'm on, Jesus take the wheel.

Pray to god someone prays for me

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

Help me, Jesus. I know what I am.

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

I'm a silly little needy person sometimes, and I crouch in a room all alone and think of all the people that I wish were with me.

I know what it feels like to be broke and alone, and I don't ever want my loved ones to see that or know what it's like.

Many hotels, I just sat there and - I call it the silent scream - I don't know why, you just sit there, and tears will just come down, and you'll just sit there for hours, man. There's no place to turn, and when you do turn, who cares? You're just a dumb professional wrestler.

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

Sometimes I feel like I don't belong anywhere, & it's gonna take so long for me to get to somewhere, Sometimes I feel so heavy hearted, but I can't explain cuz I'm so guarded. But that's a lonely road to travel, and a heavy load to bear. And it's a long, long way to heaven but I gotta get there Can you send an angel? Can you send me an angel...to guide me.

My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort

Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.

Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me, why, I’ll give you anything in the world, and if I haven’t got it, why, I’ll go for to get it. I don’t want to be mean. I don’t want to be lonely. For Jesus’ sake, Amen.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.