Desperate Quotes

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

I'm desperate to start a career in music.

I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.

But desperate people find courage.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success

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.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

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

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)

For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.

You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.