Desperately Quotes

493 Desperately quotes by 419 unique authors

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you… — Mark Helprin
I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I… — W. Somerset Maugham
I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may… — Carl Sagan
Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is… — Tom Robbins
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is… — Margaret Atwood
The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or… — David Sedaris
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master… — Henry Miller
He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink… — Hermann Hesse
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the… — Francis Chan
People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is… — Margaret Atwood
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and… — Melina Marchetta
I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious… — Peter Cameron
Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being… — Anne Lamott
The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle and tried desperately… — Dan Brown
You once said you loved me. Do you still?" My sister is watching this exchange between us. She smiles warmly at me, giving me the… — Simone Elkeles
To desperately hope," I whispered James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe. — Laura Whitcomb
It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard was Sam. His… — Maggie Stiefvater
No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they… — Banana Yoshimoto
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing… — Alice Sebold
And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you… — Madeleine L'Engle
How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then,… — Ann Brashares
I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately… — Lady Gaga
Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For… — Elizabeth Strout

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