When you have nothing left. When you're on the brink, options evaporating, and time running out. This isn't quiet despair; this is extreme desperation. It's the feeling that drives you to do the impossible, to do what you never imagined. It's the primal urge to survive. These quotes reflect the depths of this feeling, and make us ponder: does extreme desperation lead us to salvation or further into the abyss?
“We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like, "I'm hungry.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
