Desperate Quotes

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be along process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

~ Haruki Murakami

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

~ G.k. Chesterton

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

~ J.m. Barrie

There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I search for love frantically... and quitting at the last moment by making excuse for myself that I've tried

~ Acha Salim

People change only under two circumstances, one is called Inspiration and the other Desperation!!!! Unfortunately, both give results!

~ Harrish Sairaman

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.

~ Rob Liano

Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.

~ R.j. Lawrence

If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

~ Tenacious D

At times I was desperate and could find no solace anywhere. Nothing seemed to work, and the weight of being trapped in my own body made it difficult to lift even a hand off the sheets.

~ Lucy Grealy

Be willing to pass through a short term pain so that you can come out with a long term gain. Don't fear the horrible waves of the waters, just dare to cross and you get there!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In your most desperate moments where you crawl on the ground like worms, sometimes you suddenly hear the voice of a savior, the voice of the Music which immediately carries you away to the stars!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

~ Criss Jami

As long as you call on God, He will answer you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is no secret that the world hates Christianity; but when the world runs out of options, they desperately look for God.

~ Felix Wantang

I bleed passion. I’m not entirely sure what this means but I’m greedy over the words. They’re so full of life. And I really need some life to balance out the desperate allure of the dark.

~ Marley Jacobs

Maybe we don’t ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love’s grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The thing is and I know this is going to sound strange- that I seem to love you sort of desperately.

~ L.j. Smith

Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun.

~ Anthony Liccione

Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate.

~ Anthony Liccione

A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to prove to his ex-love that he was faithful. The irony, is he is still in love with his ex and the new woman in his life doesn’t even realize it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

~ Joseph Conrad

There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.

~ Tehmina Durrani

We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I know it's painful growing,I bet the changes was painful too.But nothing is as painful as being somewhere you don't belong. Obviously.

~ Touaxia Vang

A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.

~ Brian Michael Good

For those of you out there today who have already been through hard times and are desperate for a word of encouragement, let me assure you that you can trust this Lord of heaven and earth. Remember that Scripture warns us to “lean not on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5).

~ James C. Dobson

Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.

~ Anthony Liccione

It’s not okay,” I tell her. This gets her attention; it’s not what she was expecting. “You don’t have to be okay.” “What do you want from me?” Her voice is ragged, desperate. “I want you to let yourself be broken. Let yourself hurt.” She shakes her head again. “I can’t. If I let it out, it’ll never stop.” “Yes, it will.

~ Jasinda Wilder

How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their grey-flecked crew cuts and their button-down collars and their brisk little hurrying feet! There were endless desperate swarms of them, hurrying through the station and the streets, and an hour from now they would all be still. The waiting mid-town office buildings would swallow them up and contain them, so that to stand in one tower looking out across the canyon to another would be to inspect a great silent insectarium displaying hundreds of tiny pink men in white shirts, forever shifting papers and frowning into telephones, acting out their passionate little dumb show under the supreme indifference of the rolling spring clouds.

~ Richard Yates

Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Compete with yourself, you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A higher speed on the wrong path is very is fatal! Don’t be desperate about going ahead with the highest speed. First of all, be sure you are on the right track.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Go to where ever dreamland you decide on. But go with passion hand-in-hand. You will never be tired on the way!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.

~ Heather Demetrios

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. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them.

~ Maggie Stiefvater