Desperation Quotes · Page 8

“I love you...with everything i am. I want you...with a desperation that consumes me. I need you...more than air”

— Kahlen Aymes

“You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.”

— Anthony Burgess

“back into bed and he came willingly, ashamed of the concern he saw in her sleepy face.  The desperation”

— Brian Harmon

“Such a little child To send to be a priestling... Icy poverty”

— Shiki

“You will never ever be backed into a corner of desperation as long as you trust and believe that "God's Got It.”

— Gale C Adams

“The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Such hungry desperation in a single kiss when it's enamored in love and bathed in bliss.”

— Melody Lee

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

— Albert Brooks

“He snatched up the reins again, holding her tight. There was nothing affectionate or remotely romantic about the gesture; it was desperation,…

— S.A. Chakraborty

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

— Michael Cunningham

“I was scarcely aware of the angry hands scratching and pulling at me from all directions. Instead, I closed my eyes and…

— Kien Nguyen

Canadians must fight back against global elites preying on the fears and desperation of people to impose their power grab.

— Pierre Poilievre

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

— David Maine

“Soon, I found myself locked in my own cage of fear and desperation, where my experience of life was getting smaller and…

— Anita Moorjani

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

— Jim Carrey

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the…

— Renata Adler

“If that child dreaming by the wireless had been asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, what I had…

— John Banville

“Imagine all of L.A. filled with windup men wandering empty-headed and waiting for orders and directions and purpose. That’s L.A. in a…

— Richard Kadrey

“Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere though of impending death acts like an aphrodisiac.…

— Margaret Atwood

I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you…

— Osamu Dazai

My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been…

— Jose Saramago

“Jared. I have a past" I almost whispered "Who doesn-" I interrupted him "Please just let me speak and then you can…

— Mercy Cortez (LiveForeverAnon

“Sophie.” He said her name softly. If her life depended on it, she could not have looked anywhere but into the flat,…

— Carolyn Jewel

No hope, just desperation. So sit and wait for death and pray it takes you soon. The addiction's taking you.

— Bullet For My Valentine

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“They reek of thirst and desperation, and just like garlic and onions; it’s a perfume no woman should ever wear.”

— D.A. Young

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

— Veronica Roth

Complaining about wanting a relationship just makes you look more desprate then you are.

— Syoung

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

— Harlan Coben

“Sometimes we don't know that it's best to run. Hanging on in desperation seems to be our way.”

— Amy A. Bartol

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Sue Miller

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

— R. Scott Bakker

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

— Charles Bukowski

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

— Anthony Lewis

President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation.

— Jay Leno

And in the end, we are only atoms. Drifting alone, desperate for something to cling on to.

— Anonymous

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot…

— Brett Gelman

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

— Anonymous