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Quotes About Desperation

A relationship needs its games. If there is no sense of play, there is only desperation, the fear of being alone.
~ Antoine Wilson
Have you ever felt that, Ts'an Tsan?—a hunger for knowledge so desperate you begrudge food and sleep, you cannot wait for another dawn to get on to more and more?" Damon nodded. "Yes. Well, I had that fever. I had to know: it was more important than life." From
~ Anton Myrer
I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
~ Antonin Artaud
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
~ Antonin Artaud
A person in desperate need of help does not get the support of even one guy often, then wondering from where all these people come together in a big lot for a big cause.
~ Anuj Somany
The desperation of media in promoting the vaccination and getting big commission out of it is quite visible in making covid a trending sensation through hired netizens
~ Anuj Somany
There is so much desperation of selling vaccination that every month or quarter fake news information of a new variant of virus is being done through all media channels to fill the minds of the population and fools start believing in it
~ Anuj Somany
If I should never see him again—she thought, Blessed Mother, how could I live, and yet it was the fear of seeing him again which had driven her to this desperate haste. The fear that if he were there so near her she
~ Anya Seton
The happier we are, the more easily we draw to us everything we want. Every moment of every day, we are sending out energetic signals that are felt by the people around us. This explains why a desperate person draws to himself or herself more desperation, while a person who is already fulfilled becomes a magnet for greater fulfillment.
~ Arielle Ford
Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
~ Arlene J. Chai
I chuckled without humor and sat up in the chair. "If I'm not mistaken, you just asked me how much to kill your daughter?
~ Armand Rosamilia
When the need is strong, there are those who will believe anything.
~ Arnold Lobel
Art is the desperate cry of those who experience in themselves the fate of humanity.
~ Arnold Schoenberg
Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.
~ Ben Domenech
The characters in Six of Crows' aren't kings or queens; they don't have grand destinies. They're just six kids desperate enough to attempt the impossible.
~ Leigh Bardugo
There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
~ David Whyte
'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
~ Louis Theroux
When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.
~ Louis Zamperini
I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.
~ Denis Johnson
If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.
~ Lee J. Cobb
All will be forgotten, everything you perceived, thought, dreamed, hoped, remembered . . . all the past all the crawling fucking coughing chestpounding nose-picking and deathward attempts to make real some desperate desire, like standing upright for a minute in the sun. The sun that will die.
~ Franz Wright
Again he picked up a stone and kept rolling it in his hands. His hands were damp with mounting excitement. What was it that everyone in the world knew but he? There was something grave and black being kept from him, and he could feel how important it was, how imminent, and he was desperate to know.
~ Fred Chappell
Qu'un type de trente-cinq ans soit chez lui un mercredi à quinze heures vingt est la preuve tangible qu'il est dans une merde de première qualité.
~ Fred Vargas
The shortest horror story: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
~ Frederic Brown