Desperate is feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with. Profoundly inspirational desperate quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Desperate Quotes
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
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller
In desperate position, you must fight. – Sun Tzu
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. – Emily Dickinson
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. – Henry David Thoreau
Love yourself enough to not come off desperate.
We’re all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding. – Beau Taplin
The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose. – Jodi Picoult
I think I’m probably a little too desperate to be successful. – Howard Stern
I’m in desperate need of a 6-month vacation… twice a year. – Unknown
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. – Unknown
Desperate affairs require desperate measures. – Horatio Nelson
When I am not desperate, I am worthless. – Ivo Andric
Desperate people are the most dangerous. – Frank Herbert
In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. – Al Purdy
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it. – Elizabeth Gilbert
I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. 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
I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’ – Nicole Kidman
Don’t let desperate situations make you do desperate things. – Unknown
When people get desperate, they get very creative. – Jeff Smoller
Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior. – Jessica Walter
To be desperate in your search for something is to get it. – Sunday Adelaja
It’s heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day. – Moby
Inspirational Desperate Quotes
If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover. – Mooji
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best. – Bob Geldof
Falling in love does not mean you’re desperate. – Tanaz Bhathena
I’m not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can’t join your gang: you’d think I was a phony and I’d know it. – Vivian Stanshall
The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death. – Bion Smyma
Never underestimate desperate people. You never know how far they will go to get what they want. – Unknown
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. – Daisaku Ikeda
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. – G.K. Chesterton
Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. – William Blake
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. – Unknown
There is nothing more dangerous than a desperate man who has nothing to loose. – Rafay Baloch
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. – Heinz Guderian
You’re desperate, and so am I,’ I said. ‘Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time. – Veronica Rot
There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed. – Gemma Malley
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. – Andre Breton
Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. – Charles Bukowski
I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves. – David Whyte
I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good. – John Elkann
I want to feel embarrassed by my desperation but I’m too busy feeling desperate. – Marley Jacobs
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate. – Thomas Jefferson
The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we’re desperate not to have on the show. – Graham Norton
You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn’t save you. – Arthur Golden
I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions. – Charles Bukowski
Some situations may push you to become desperate but don’t forget the virtue of patience. Keep practicing it. – Terry Mark
Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option. – Amen Muffler
People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different. – Adam Driver
The interesting thing is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. – David Foster Wallace
It’s so important to say these things when you can because when it’s over, it’s over. – Roy
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. – Madeleine L’Engle
Once you choose hope, anything is possible. – Christopher Reeve
There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed. – Gemma Malley
In barely one generation, we’ve moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them – often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. – Pico Iyer
Desperate Quotes About life
I’m not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate. – Ashleigh Brilliant
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you will start having positive results. – Willie Nelson
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – St. Francis of Assisi
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. – Gustave Flaubert
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. – Joyce Meyer
I learned not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good. – John Elkann
If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk. – Hippocrates
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
There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind. – C. S. Lewis
If you’re going through Hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. – Isaac Asimov
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us. – Alexander Graham Bell
Nothing is impossible; the word itself says I’m possible! – Audrey Hepburn
Desperate measures call for desperate times. – John Alejandro King
If you have to beg someone to be in your life, they don’t belong there. – Mandy Hale
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think. – George Carlin
I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you’re really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That’s the way I’ve always lived my life. – Shania Twain
Never allow yourself to be so desperate that you end up settling for far less than what you deserve. – Anonymous
In life you need either inspiration or desperation. – Tony Robbins
The number of chances you give someone doesn’t tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth. – Shannon L. Alder
Don’t dare a person who has nothing else left to lose. – Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals. – Arlene J. Chai
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. – Pico Iyer
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly. – Richard Adams
A person in desperate need of help does not get the support of even one guy often, then wondering from where all these people come together in a big lot for a big cause. – Anuj Somany
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
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. – Henry David Thoreau
In your most desperate moments where you crawl on the ground like worms, sometimes you suddenly hear the voice of a savior, the voice of the Music which immediately carries you away to the stars! – Mehmet Murat ildan
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. – Tennessee Williams
Short Desperate Quotes
Don’t let desperate situations make you do desperate things. – Anonymous
You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. – Louise L. Hay
It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me. – Jodie Foster
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. – William Durant
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled. Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. – William Blake
The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make. – Canelo Alvarez
At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don’t think you can help but be involved. – Nina Simone
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. – Christian Nestell Bovee
There’s always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you. – Kirstie Alley
Desperate people can make themselves believe anything. – Candice Poarch
Desperation is not an evidence of hard work, it’s a sign of lack of faith. Constance Friday
A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. – Guy Fawkes
Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It’s a desperate feeling in a desperate situation. – Carroll Bryant
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! – William Shakespeare
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. – Lisa See
