Quotes about Desperation

Heathcliff: Catherine! Catherine! Catherine!

- Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Catherine Sloper: He must come, he must take me away, he must love me, he must. Morris will love me - for all those who didn't.

- Olivia de Havilland (as Catherine Sloper) in The Heiress (1949)

Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?
Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Tony Manetta: Sophie, Mario... I was wondering if, well... would you take Ally to live with you?
Sophie Manetta: Ally? But he don't want to go with us.
Tony Manetta: I don't care what he wants. And don't put me through a ringer Sophie, not you. You were absolutely right Mario. I'm nothing but a bum. Never have been anything but a bum. I had the money right in my hand, but I blew it trying to impress a guy who knows me like a book. Like you know me. Like everybody else knows me -- except me. A cheap, chiseling, conniving bum. And I don't want Alley to be like that, so please take him with you.

- Frank Sinatra (as Tony Manetta) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Cathy: You're very grand, Heathcliff. So handsome. Looking at you tonight I could not help but remember how things used to be.
Heathcliff: They used to be better.
Cathy: Don't pretend life hasn't improved for you.
Heathcliff: Life has ended for me... (pause) How can you stand here beside me and pretend not to remember? Not to know that my heart is breaking for you? That your face is the wonderful light burning in all this darkness?

- Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

[choked up about Rhett and Scarlett]
Mammy: He went out and shot that poor pony, and, for a minute, I thought he was gonna shoot himself.

- Hattie McDaniel (as Mammy) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

[the former slaves have taken the Spanish ship - as the Spaniards return, their boats are destroyed by the ship's cannons]
Henry Hagthorpe: Didn't I tell you I was a gunner, sir?
Dr. Peter Blood: You did that, you son of a Yorkshire steer - and bless your rusty heart, it's a gunner you are!

- Errol Flynn (as Peter Blood) in Captain Blood (1935)

Ellie Andrews: We'll get on a merry-go-round and never get off. Promise me we'll never get off.

- Claudette Colbert (as Ellie) in It Happened One Night (1934)

Mrs. Danvers: Go ahead. Jump. He never loved you, so why go on living? Jump and it will all be over...

- Judith Anderson (as Mrs. Danvers) in Rebecca (1940)

Heathcliff: Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest so long as I live on! I killed you. Haunt me, then! Haunt your murderer! I know that ghosts have wandered on the Earth. Be with me always. Take any form, drive me mad, only do not leave me in this dark alone where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul.

- Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)