Desperate Quotes - Page 15

• I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sorry, Littles, Seems

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

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• A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’s him, our master. Come, kiss me.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Fall, Kissing, Pigs

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• There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tiny bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Loneliness, Sea

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.

  Howard Zinn

  Running, Long, Culture

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.10, Routledge

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• Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

  Tom Robbins

  Hiding, Still Life With Woodpecker, Form

  "Still Life With Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, October 1980.

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• She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

  Julia Quinn

  Unrequited Love, Years, Glimpse

  Julia Quinn (2007). “The secret diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever”

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• And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

  Libba Bray

  Trying, Not Sure, Casts

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.212, Delacorte Press

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• … in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.

  Anne Rice

  Struggle, Sight, Doors

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.600, Ballantine Books

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• Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Struggle, Talking

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• Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Desire, Dumbledore Book

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• The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.

  Alvin Toffler

  Running, People, Imagination

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• To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mother, Men, Abortion

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Enthusiasm For Life, Long

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 20, 2017

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• Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)

  Joseph Delaney

  Matter, Demon, Having Hope

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• On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again

  Walter Dean Myers

  Taken, Who I Am, Cities

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• I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

  John Perkins

  People, Terrorism, Mets

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• (About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely people who are happy should look happy, at all times, no matter how much money they have or how uncomfortable their shoes are or how little their child is sleeping; and people who are doing OK but have still not found their soul-mate should look, I don't know, anxious, like Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally; and people who are desperate should wear something, a yellow ribbon maybe, which would allow them to be identified by similar desperate people.

  Nick Hornby

  Children, Sleep, Things In Life

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• I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.

  Steve Toltz

  Men, Giving, Honor

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.3, Spiegel & Grau

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• The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains in the windows of dreary houses, and Nick was unsurprised to see the curtains making their attempts in every window of this place. There was a china garden gnome on the doorstep, wearing a desperate, crazy smile. "It's not so bad," Alan said. "You never take me nice places anymore, baby." said Nick, and was mildly gratified by Alan's ring of laughter, like a living bell that had been caught by surprise when it was struck.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Baby, Laughter, Nice

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

  Katherine Dunn

  Brain, Behaviour, Mediocrity

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jan 29, 2012

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• Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang of insane scientists desperate to do genetic experiments on innocent children. Guess which hand I get dealt?

  James Patterson

  Children, Nice, Hands

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• he was watching me and when our eyes met, i had no fan to cover my face, no way to hid my feelings. i was desperate for him, and he could see it, all the way in me.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Eye, Feelings, Fans

  Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)

  Kathryn Lasky

  Brave, Legends

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.158, Scholastic Inc.

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• That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Desperate Measures, Catching Fire

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