Desperate Quote by Charlotte Rampling

Part of my reaction to my diagnosis of infertility was deeply sarcastic and critical, part of it was morbid, part of it was numb,…

— Monica Youn

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

— Tom Robbins

Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor,…

— Alina Bronsky

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of…

— Walter Pater

Successful comedians are just as neurotic as I am.

— Josh Widdicombe

“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.”

— Karen Horney

People are very forgiving in my job of neurotic individuals.

— Rebecca Front

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

— Molly Harper

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered…

— Colson Whitehead

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just…

— William Hurt

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

— Mignon McLaughlin