Desperation Quotes

“I love you and we don’t need the other world to keep that.”

He glanced at the small window in the door to see if the guard was watching, then leaned over quickly and pressed their foreheads together.

“It’s just true,” he said. “It always has been. In this world and the next. They could take everything away and leave us with nothing, and I would still love you.”
― K. Ancrum, The Wicker King

“The first woman president has to happen in my lifetime, or I'm going to light this entire planet on fire.”
― Maurene Goo, The Way You Make Me Feel

“You need to wake up and realize that you deserve more, and there is more waiting for you out there. Stop settling; it only tarnishes and corrodes your soul.”
― Lebo Grand

“A funny thing happens when you have nothing left to live for. Your existence loses all its sharp edges. There are no more steep drops, no hills to climb. Colors blur and muddle together until your surroundings are a bunch of meaningless shapes and figures painted in the same shade of gray. There's nothing that could possibly surprise you or resurrect those old sensations of joy or fear. No humans could be as unfeeling, as numb, as you are. And then, just when you're getting lulled into the monotonous routine, something snaps. No more.”
― Alexandra Monir, The Final Six

“I ran through air that held me back.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead. The best thing you can do is deal from strength, and leverage is the biggest strength you can have. Leverage is having something the other guy wants. Or better yet, needs. Or best of all, simply can’t do without.”
― Donald Trump, Мистецтво укладати угодк

“Like alcohol, desperation can make a coward seem courageous.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Glory is revealed most clearly in desperation, dependance, and discomfort.”
― Alia Joy, Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack

“I just want to know if I can go to Heaven. That's all I want in life, salvation in the next.”
― Sarah Gracia, Prisoners of War

“There's the thing with girls, isn't it?', he'd said. 'Whenever they stand on the edge of something, you can't help it, you can't. You think, push. That's all it would take. Just one little push.”
― Shobha Rao, Girls Burn Brighter

“Falling in love doe snot mean you're desperate.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“إن هناك ألف طريقة للحياة، وطريقة واحدة للإنتحار هي : اليأس”
― محمود عوض, وعليكم السلام

“Le Goût du néant

Morne esprit, autrefois amoureux de la lutte,
L’Espoir, dont l’épéron attisait ton ardeur,
Ne veut plus t’enfourcher! Couche-toi sans pudeur,
Vieux cheval dont le pied à chaque obstacle bute.

Résigne-toi, mon coeur; dors ton sommeil de brute.

Esprit vaincu, fourbu! Pour toi, vieux maraudeur,
L’amour n’a plus de goût, non plus que la dispute;
Adieu donc, chants du cuivre et soupirs de la flûte!
Plaisirs, ne tentez plus un coeur sombre et boudeur!

Le Printemps adorable a perdu son odeur!

Et le Temps m’engloutit minute par minute,
Comme la neige immense un corps pris de roideur;
Je contemple d’en haut le globe en sa rondeur
Et je n’y cherche plus l’abri d’une cahute.

Avalance, veux-tu m’emporter dans ta chute?”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“You drive me back down my desperation—that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life.”
― Sophocles, Electra

“The labyrinth was dirty, constricting. The smell of wet and rotted vines littered the air, making his tentative hands twitch and curl
with desperation. How he wished to be free again! To feel the glaciers melt into springs and witness the stars turn themselves
over and over again under his fingertips.”
― Grace Curley, The Light that Binds Us

“But I had come to where I had never been before, the blessed point of sufficient desperation.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“Depth of Desperation

Don’t succumb to the sorrow that seeds anxiety into your soul
You are desperate because you feel
You are determined because you allow yourself to feel
And you refuse to give up on a dream, a wish
A hope that is embedded within you
And that is truly beautiful”
― Christine Evangelou, Diamonds Through The Dark: The Poetry I Am in Love, Faith and Fire

“Being desperate for something is not bad, but it is when you let your desperation be overly visible.”
― Mohith Agadi

“How about a favor?” I asked impulsively –foolishly.

Oh, but how I would regret these words. I was sure about that. But nothing else came to mind, and to regret it, I still had to live.”
― Jina S. Bazzar, Heir of Ashes

“بين بحري ومرساتك،
الماء يغرق
والأزرق لا ينجو.”
― Malak El Halabi

“She held the woman's hand but the hand was now simply weight. She listened as the men returned north toward the gate from which they'd first entered. They passed close to her tent. It seemed an endless procession, thousands strong. She imagined them not as men, not even as human, but as a dark, daylong season: a primal winter.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

“Body dysmorphic disorder wedges itself between the sufferer’s desperation to connect and the fear that they might be rejected while attempting to do so. This serves the purpose of preventing rejection; if one is constantly dismissing oneself it becomes much more difficult to be rejected by another human being. For many highly sensitive body dysmorphic disorder patients, rejection is experienced as the ultimate proof that something must be inherently defective about them. For this to be the case is often interpreted as absolute confirmation that they can never be loved. Taking the risk of possible rejection might mean experiencing these dire consequences, and to most, the benefits do not out-weigh the consequences. Thus body dysmorphic disorder exists in the space of the relational ambivalence, completely changing the focus from fears of intimacy and fundamental feelings of inadequacy to excessive attention towards perceptible physical features.”
― Winograd Arie M, Face to Face with Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Psychotherapy and Clinical Insights

“You'll get, with faith and hope what you think can be yours.”
― Jaspreet Kaur

“إنّ تسمية المحيط المسالِم أو الهادئ منذ عبورِه أوّل مرّةٍ من قِبَل بحّارة أوربّيين لم تكن أكثر من صفةٍ لأملٍ يائس”
― Christoph Ransmayr, Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes

“If the sea could speak, he thought blindly, it would be screaming at him”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of sorrowful thoughts, “Is there anything about this scene you can change, Liz?”
― Elizabith Gilbert

“He was a powerful man; he had powerful contacts, and two hidden office levels that, although weren't dungeons, could be used for anything his desperate mind set out to do.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Their desperation must have been great, indeed. Desperation or greed. Is there a difference? Some days, I cannot tell.”
― Katie Cross, Chronicles of the Dragonmasters

“كيف ليَ أن أكتب قصيدة تخدش وجه العالم

وتدير دفّة القمر؟”
― Malak El Halabi

“Never act out of desperation.”
― Daniel V Chappell