Quotes About Desperation

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate.

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

To cast Ida, it took ages, and I was a bit desperate. I couldn't find somebody I could believe in. I spent months looking for the lead among young actresses and drama students.

It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.

If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.

I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

The last thing you want is to be desperate in Hollywood.

I think a lot of comedians are desperate to show their serious side, but I got that off my chest early on in my career.

I find Los Angeles a bit desperate. For me, the energy there is bad.

I knew that was going to be the last chance to play in the Champions League final - I was desperate to win, I put a lot of pressure on myself. Finally I got hold of that cup - it was the defining moment of my career. I got really emotional and nearly fainted on the pitch.

I can't remember ever being desperate for money, even when I didn't have any.

In order to win in the NFL... you've got to be desperate to win a championship.

There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

I can say that when you model,when you get to a certain age, that's it for you. I remember there was a time where I was like, 'What am I going to do with my life?' I am a high school dropout who's only modeled. So there was desperation with that.

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.