(486 quotes found)
“But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?”
William Booth
“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.”
Willem de Kooning
“In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."”
Grace Murray Hopper
“The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself.”
Ted Morgan
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“[Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast...and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Will you be mine? When my people go away, When I loose my loved ones When I feel I lost myself........ Will you be mine? If my friend becomes my foe If someones's gesture against me If I cannot fight my feelings....... Will you be mine? No one is with me or Whatever happens... Will you be with me...till my breath leaves me...”
Nishi De Silva
“Tempt not a desperate man.”
William Shakespeare
“Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers / because males have got to try and justify their existence.”
Orson Welles
