Desperate Quotes

837 Desperate quotes by 688 unique authors

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone. — Lisa Kleypas
I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right. — Suzanne Collins
I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me! — Anne Frank
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was… — Aimee Bender
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. — Lisa See
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. — Richard J. Foster
It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before.… — Maggie Stiefvater
I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success. Forcing him into… — Deb Caletti
A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?" Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and soorte4d fruit toppings?" I dropped… — Rachel Vincent
I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was.… — Amy Tan
He frames my face with his hands as he says, "Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you… — Claudia Gray
Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict. — Erwin W. Lutzer
If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There… — Mohsin Hamid
We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better.… — Susane Colasanti
No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it. — Tennessee Williams
With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search… — William Least Heat-Moon
Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals. — Arlene J. Chai
Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope… — James Thomson
Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing… — Anais Nin
My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate.… — Lauren Oliver
Hold onto me baby. I'm going to take care of you." The raspy need in his voice only made me more desperate. — Abbi Glines
You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you. — Arthur Golden
What did Mira show your attacker last week? he asked, desperate to turn the attention away from himself now. Yakut shrugged. Only he can know.… — Tina St. John
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their… — Lauren Oliver
There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that… — Lauren DeStefano

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