Desperation Quotes

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

Steven Erikson

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

Kate Morton

This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens.

Danielle Paige

There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own imprudence, by the reckless Salina pride; and now, just at the moment when her memories had come alive again after so many years, she found herself even without the solace of being able to blame her own unhappiness on others, a solace which is the last protective device of the desperate.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

You told me, if something is not used it is meaningless, and took my temperature, which I had thought to save for a more difficult day. In the mirror, every night, the same face, a bit more threadbare, a dress worn too long. The moon was out in the cold, along with the restless, dissatisfied wind that seemed to change the location of the sycamores. I expected reproaches because I had mentioned the word love, but you only accused me of stealing your pencil, and sadness disappeared with sense. You made a ceremony out of holding your head in your hands because, you said, it could not be contained in itself.

Rosmarie Waldrop

He felt himself now, as he had often fancied other people, adrift on the stream, and far removed from control of it, a man with no grasp upon circumstances any longer. Old battered man loafing at the doors of public-houses now seemed to be his fellows, and he felt, as he supposed them to feel, a mingling of envy and hatred towards those who passed quickly and certainly to a goal of their own. They, too, saw things very thin and shadowy, and were wafted about by the lightest breath of wind. For the substantial world, with its prospect of avenues leading on and on to the invisible distance, had slipped from him.

Virginia Woolf

Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

... desperate times required judicious risk-taking.

Eoin Colfer

Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack.

Bryant McGill

Diseases desperate grown,By desperate appliance are relieved,Or not at all.

William Shakespeare

In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.

Toni Morrison

education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Things are never as they seem. A person. A Mark. A statement. They are always deeper than we perceive, like walking in the ocean and suddenly dipping under the surface because the bottom has disappeared beneath your feet. The water appears shallow until you are suddenly flailing around beneath the surface, desperately searching for stable ground once again.

Kelseyleigh Reber

Any nation that teaches and makes it's people look for miracles is making it's people shallow.

Sunday Adelaja

The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.

Donald Ray Pollock

It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?

Stephen King

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

Anne Rice

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

Charlotte Brontë

...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

Tom Robbins

Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and golds. "Sometimes we can," he says.

Lauren DeStefano

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

Sue Miller

You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244

Veronica Roth

Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn't become the victim of one instead. I don't care what anyone says. I believe him.

Shirley Marr

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

Helen Fielding

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

Craig Ferguson

No healthy mind could bring itself to torture another human being.

Lance Conrad

I swung my hips around like I unscrewed at the waist.

Amber Dawn

Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it, a low hum like the buzz of a sick bee that resonated with the fragments of a million broken dreams.

Sol Luckman

education without inspiration is only recipe for desperation

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Once again, I felt as I needed to flee or I’d die. That was how my life was panning out.

Grace Lozada

Let the darkness transform into rockacross the wilderness of my memory

Xiaobo Liu

A desperate soul needs a good and inspiring music

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.

Michael Connelly

To whomever is writing this book, what do you want from me? I need to know my calling. Why was I chosen? Why not Lee? Why not Susan March? Why me? What is my purpose? Please let it be more than to destroy a life and embarrass another. I need to know. I am suffering. You are a constant headache. Anywhere I go, I can hear you, I can feel you. I want to be like the others, ignorant of this.

Kevin Jared Hosein

The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

SONG OF DAWNI saw the sun rise by accident.It was a horrible sight.Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refugein a moist pillow, and lay there, alone,at the dawn of another day,that brought me closer to another death,pondering the vanity of my solitude,the vanity of procrastination,and the tiresome inevitability of waking upagain the same person.It might still be possible to change,but obstinately I remain the same,hoping that others might take solacein my consistency.But perhaps they take no solace in it,perhaps they too find it tedious.

John Tottenham

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Michael Cunningham

A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.

Kilroy J. Oldster

In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.

Pawan Mishra

Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.

Bryant McGill

In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.

Pauline Réage

The desperation in his voice was misplaced and as his eyes danced over my face I knew he was just as broken as I was. That kiss, those caresses—the feeling of his skin against mine had shattered our perfect friendship. There was no turning back now; having him was the only thing that would make me whole.

Cassandra Giovanni

He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.

Sarah Winter

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

John Geddes

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.

Mihail Drumeş

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

Milan Kundera

Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.

Laura Miller

Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.

David Maine

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Brontë

earn what you can since everything's for sale

Geoffrey Chaucer

Neil said to me once that in times of desperation, you have to force yourself to make a decision.It's your choice, he said. Us or them. So choose.

Shirley Marr

He wanted to go home to the place that he hated.

Katherine Boo

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Alain de Botton

You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

Lauren DeStefano

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.

T.M. Williams

Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.

Joseph Fink

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