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Desperate Quotes

Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out to her, "don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words Meggie! 'Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm it's creator! Cornelia Funke
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
Horatio Nelson quote: "Desperate affairs require desperate measures."
Desperate affairs require desperate measures. Horatio Nelson
Suzanne Collins quote: "Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd..."
Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other. Suzanne Collins
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it."
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it. Elizabeth Gilbert
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Disraeli
Douglas Horton quote: "Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good..."
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. Douglas Horton
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. Uma Thurman
Jessica Walter quote: "Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior."
Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior. Jessica Walter
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
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. Henry David Thoreau
he asked, "what makes a man awriter?"well," I said, "it's simple, it's either youget it down on paper or you jump off abridge. writers are desperate people and when they stopbeing desperate they stop beingwriters."are you desperate?"I don't know... Charles Bukowski
The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want. Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins quote: "That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm..."
That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish. Suzanne Collins
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

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