Desperation Quotes

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

~ Simon Van Booy

Brianna peered through the large window into the sea of plexiglass cradles. Each infant, so small and precious, belonged to someone. Someone who cared for them. Someone who loved them. Brianna sniffled and turned away, unable to bear the thought that she had no one.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.

~ Amit Kalantri

He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o' aught on earth. He thought God could na be harder than men; mappen not so hard; mappen as tender as a mother; mappen tenderer. I'm not saying he did right, and I'm not saying he didn't wrong. All I say is, may neither me nor mine ever have his sore heart, or we may do like things.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.

~ Tennessee Williams

Desperation is not an evidence of hard work, it's a sign of lack of faith

~ Constance Friday

I think our last kiss was meant to be quick and chaste, but after the first touch of his lips fire leaped up and roared through my belly. My fingers yanked him close, digging into his back, and his arms crushed me to him as if wanting to meld us together. I knotted my fingers in his hair and bit down on his bottom lip, making him groan. His lips parted, and my tongue swept in to dance with his. There was nothing sweet or gentle in our last kiss; it was filled with sorrow and desperation, of the bitter knowledge that we could've had something perfect, but it just wasn't meant to be.

~ Julie Kagawa

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

~ Tyra Banks

Extreme anxiety, fear, exhaustion, and lack of other viable options are what cause a person to surrender everything. Desperation is also the raw material of drastic change. Crisis spurs critical, dramatic shifts in a person’s psyche. Only a person who is willing to lose everything will transform himself or herself. Only by moving outside our comfort zone of the past – letting go of a former being – will a person expand their state of conscious awareness. Now that I am desperate, I am dangerous. I am also ripe for transformation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It is amazing how women spend too much time and energy scheming, plotting and seducing men when they should spend more time listening, learning and getting over desperation.

~ Benyf

it was times like these when a man in a desperate situation must take whatever madness is offered to escape the darker madness in which he finds himself trapped.

~ Sean F. Hogan

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

~ Howard Zinn

Such a little childTo send to be a priestling...Icy poverty

~ Shiki

She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the things she would offer to do for a couple of dollars would make the Devil blush.

~ Rachel Autumn Deering

Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and leading them to drink,to beating or the noose. Was this it?

~ Panashe Chigumadzi

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to 'LIllustration. Something desperate, you know.Zagreus smiled. You're a poor man, Mersault. That explains half of your disgust. And the other half you owe to your own submission to poverty.

~ Albert Camus

We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked—like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go.

~ Pawan Mishra

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

~ Courtney Milan

I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...-Mitsuko Souma

~ Koushun Takami

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

~ Evelyn Waugh

I want to feel embarrassed by my desperation but I’m too busy feeling desperate.

~ Marley Jacobs

A month ago it would have been my dream just to be in his bedroom watching a movie, but now it’s torture because I want so much more. It’s like my entire conscious state has been reduced to this toxic blend of hope and uncertainty. I hate that I have to act cool and almost pretend I don’t like him when in fact I do, because, God forbid, I come across as desperate for attention or a little clingy, which everyone should know are perfectly natural human behaviors, after all. Ugh!

~ Daria Snadowsky

Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.

~ Joseph Fink

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.

~ T.m. Williams

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

~ Lauren Destefano

You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.

~ Prageeta Sharma

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

~ Alain De Botton

He wanted to go home to the place that he hated.

~ Katherine Boo

Neil said to me once that in times of desperation, you have to force yourself to make a decision.It's your choice, he said. Us or them. So choose.

~ Shirley Marr

earn what you can since everything's for sale

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.

~ David Maine

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

~ Milan Kundera

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.

~ Mihail Drumeş

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

~ John Geddes

He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.

~ Sarah Winter

The desperation in his voice was misplaced and as his eyes danced over my face I knew he was just as broken as I was. That kiss, those caresses—the feeling of his skin against mine had shattered our perfect friendship. There was no turning back now; having him was the only thing that would make me whole.

~ Cassandra Giovanni

In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.

~ Pauline Réage

Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.

~ Bryant Mcgill