Desperate Quotes
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This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
William Shakespeare
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Desperate times breed desperate measures.
William Shakespeare
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott
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You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.
Rian Johnson
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
Taylor Caldwell
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
Yitzhak Shamir
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Virginia Woolf
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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.
T. S. Eliot
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Oliver Platt
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
Gary Hume
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Haste is needful in a desperate case.
William Shakespeare
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Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.
Nicholas Sparks
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I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
Viola Davis
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It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!
Karen Walker
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Haiti is in desperate poverty.
Pat Robertson
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
Canelo Alvarez
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When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
Halsey
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
Anne Carson
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I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.
W. S. Merwin
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The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about Madonna...I think it was a particular time where I was being bombarded with her image on TV and in magazines and her whole schtick kind of speaks to me in that way...like she's going through some sort of problem. It seems she's getting a bit desperate.
Mike Patton Faith No More
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There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle And dark desperate hours that nobody sees My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain My head in my hands down on my knees
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible.
Ewan McGregor
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A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
Richard Adams