Desperation Quotes

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like, "I'm hungry.

Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

Desperate times breed desperate measures

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

I almost die for food, and let me have it!

My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs