I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

I don't hoard things and I don't cling to memories.

— Carole Radziwill

Cold scalpel's steel whispers tear at my very core. As I cling to my memories of you I need you with me.

— Alesana

This distance, this dissolution I cling to memories while falling. Sleep brings release, and the hope of a new day. Waking the misery of…

— Killswitch Engage

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one…

— Henry Rollins

“Desperation breeds people who are willing to do anything to get what they need.”

— Sarah J. Maas

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

— Anita Moorjani

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

— Amanda Hocking

“In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.”

— Bryant McGill

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the…

— Henry David Thoreau

In exams, we look up for inspiration, down for desperation, left and right for information.

— Nishan Panwar

“Who among us does not move through life with the hidden sense, maybe even quiet desperation, that we are destined for more?”

— Peter Bregman

Lol, the thirst on SQ is serious.

— Maher

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom…

— Jonathan Tropper

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

— Craig Ferguson