Desperation Quotes

283 Desperation quotes by 248 unique authors

As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea… — David Platt
It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a… — Peter S. Beagle
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it… — Jose Saramago
Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long,… — Tove Jansson
Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring… — Markus Zusak
We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. — Jim Rohn
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting… — Wallace Stegner
Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that… — Veronica Roth
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
Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but… — Sue Monk Kidd
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate… — Henry David Thoreau
aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an… — David Levithan
Tempt not a desperate man — William Shakespeare
I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own… — Christine Feehan
Inspiration in desperation. — Stephenie Meyer
I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful. — Chuck Palahniuk
Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their stories of energy.… — Christopher Paolini
She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were… — Sarah Addison Allen
The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come… — Ravi Zacharias
Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart. — George R. R. Martin
I cling to my memories of glorious desperation. — Henry Rollins
I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves. — Steig Larsson
Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of… — Judith McNaught
Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability. — Daniel Handler
But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing… — Rachel Cohn

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