Desperate Quotes · Page 16

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

— Albert Camus

“I am short and plain and far too particular in my tastes to settle for any man desperate enough to pay me…

— Cheryl Bolen

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

— Charles Bukowski

At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't…

— Nina Simone

“Then I feel more desperate. People die. We are not permanent. We have to hurry if we want things.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“God is very patient with us when we are desperate. Pour out your soul to him.”

— Timothy Keller

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the…

— David Platt

Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity,…

— Dalai Lama

To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,…

— Hermann Hesse

Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks…

— Benjamin Graham

No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth,…

— Anonymous

Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we…

— James Patterson

“Cosgrove wondered why he was such a willing accomplice to Hanson’s dumbfuckery. Why he deferred to the whims of this latter-day village…

— Tom Cooper

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape…

— Pearl S. Buck

“For those of you out there today who have already been through hard times and are desperate for a word of encouragement,…

— James C. Dobson

The legacy of the embargo will be Cuba's poverty and desperation. When the island comes out of it, they'll be even more…

— Achy Obejas

The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held…

— Richard Yates

I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and…

— Jon Foreman

I haven't always wanted to be an actor, no. I wasn't one of the little kids that was desperate to be an…

— Gemma Chan

The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw…

— Ahmet Ertegun

Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who…

— Philip K. Chapman

I'm constantly looking at old photos of myself, photos of my friends and places I've been, listening to my old music. I…

— Ethel Cain

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of…

— William Faulkner

“I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!”

— Terry Pratchett

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

— Tom Robbins

I would love to work with everyone, but I am not desperate. Things will happen eventually.

— Raashi Khanna

“If that's what you call truth in this wicked world, no wonder why you're so desperate to defend it.”

— Toba Beta

“She was in a situation that was desperate enough to allow her life to be manipulated.”

— Alessandra Torre

I'm not desperate. I want a boyfriend, because I'm sick of sitting back and watching everybody else fall in love.

— Anonymous

“I know what that feels like. I know what it’s like to care about someone so much they make you desperate.”

— M. Leighton

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

— Elia Kazan

There's a lot of good midfielders all desperate to play for their country and all I can do when I get called…

— John McGinn

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

— Julian Fellowes

Politicians used to be leaders. Now they follow voters, desperate for a tick in a box.

— Katie Hopkins

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to…

— Augusten Burroughs

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

— Edmund Wilson

I was just desperate to make stuff. That's really what I learned about myself.

— Cord Jefferson

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

— Adrienne Rich