Desperate Quotes

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

— Penn Jillette

Sequels are desperate.

— Adam McKay

You look desperate.

— You Me At Six

“Desperate men fight best.”

— Brent Weeks

Desperate is not a sexual preference.

— Anonymous

Necessity urges desperate measures.

— Miguel de Cervantes

But desperate people find courage.

— Ken Follett

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

— William Shakespeare

“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the hearts of desperate men!”

— William Shakespeare

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

— Al Purdy

“and desperate, the younger bird dove,”

— Taki Drake

I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

— Daniel Snyder

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

— Wilfred Bion

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

— Don DeLillo

The word DEPRESSION was made only for me. And DESPERATE,,, it's me.

— Alex Maneja

“I am in desperate need of killing something.”

— Robin LaFevers

Never allow yourself to be so desperate that you end up settling for far less than what you deserve.

— Anonymous

So many desperate girls posting pictures of their body parts to gain followers, why don't you go out and get a job.

— Anonymous

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

— Gene Wilder

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

— Franklin Graham

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified… Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

— Faye Dunaway

“This desperate aversion to seeming like you wanted anything, or worse, to going after it, stayed with me for years after I…

— Curtis Sittenfield

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

— Bette Davis

“Sometimes, in your battle with unbelief, your greatest ally will wrestle you—he might even make you limp—until you’re desperate enough to say,…

— Jon Bloom

When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free…

— Ben Shapiro

“I had to grow foul with knowledge, realize the futility of everything; smash everything, grow desperate, then humble, then sponge myself off…

— Henry Miller

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches…

— Scott Adsit

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD…

— Brooke Shields

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does…

— Jean-Claude Izzo

The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by…

— Carson McCullers

I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes,…

— Patrick Marber

Are we so desperate for entertainment that we will fall for a Trickless magician?? Saw a woman in half. Pull a rabbit…

— Chris Rock

"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and…

— How to Dress Well

The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously…

— Edward Said

Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police…

— D. Todd Christofferson

(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is…

— Margaret Thatcher

Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and…

— Raymond Geuss

That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and…

— Aimee Bender

“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them…

— Marcel Theroux