“You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!”
“A terrible feeling of loneliness besieged her, so strong it was almost like physical pain...”
“Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.”
“Is there nothing you want so desperately that you’d be willing to do anything in order to acquire it?”
“Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation.”
“When you are hungry,you seek for food you get desperate if you don't find it, you feel like you gonna die,you should feel exactly like that for God, hungry, desperate to meet him.”