(486 quotes found)
“Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures”
Proverb
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
William Shakespeare
“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”
Jim Carrey
“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.”
William S. Burroughs
“I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”
Dave Edison
“Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.”
Doug Horton
“A dog in desperation will leap over a wall”
Chinese Proverbs
“All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”
William Blake
“That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.”
Charlie Chaplin
