Desperate Quotes - Page 33

• In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Tough Economic Times, People, Abortion

  Interview With Michael Bendetson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2009.

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• When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

  John Lydon

  Gains, Poverty, Chaos

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Superhero, Mind

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "Eat, Pray, Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, 2006.

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• It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

  Anne Lamott

  Grateful, Thinking, Light

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• If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Breakup, Regret, Love You

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Patience, Blow, Tangled

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• And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.

  Colleen McCullough

  Determination, Memories, Healing

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.126, Head of Zeus

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• I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Art, Clever, Love You

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• He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

  S. E. Hinton

  Someday, Violent, Young

  S. E. Hinton (1995). “The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish”

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• The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

  Eloisa James

  Book, Reading

  Eloisa James (2011). “When Beauty Tamed The Beast: Number 2 in series”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

  David Levithan

  Loneliness, Bad Relationship, Profound

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

  Mitch Albom

  Heart, Mind, Seducing

  Twitter post from May 15, 2014

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• All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Frustrated, Trying

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 20, 2011

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• I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

  David Levithan

  Book, Dying, Way

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to leap into the Word That opens up the shuttered universe.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Faith, Inspiration, Dawn

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• Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

  Alain de Botton

  Good Life, Crazy, Optimism

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2013

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• Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Circles, Becoming

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• ...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there was such a change in her voice. Coming from that iron place, it was heavy and true; it wasn't persuasive, or desperate, or antagonistic. It just was.

  Laini Taylor

  Voice, Iron, Speak

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.520, Hachette UK

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• There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Lonely, Sacrifice, Doubt

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• The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

  Yann Martel

  Mind, Suffering, Want

  Yann Martel (2002). “Life Of Pi”, p.381, Canongate Books

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• It had been three weeks, four days and twelve hours since I'd seen her. Since she'd torn my heart out. If I had been drinking, I'd blame it on the alcohol. It had to be an illusion, a desperate one. But I hadn't been drinking. Not a drop. There was no mistaking Blaire. It was her. She was actually here. Blaire was back in Rosemary. She was at my house.

  Abbi Glines

  Drinking, Heart, House

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Thinking, Parent, Might

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• I stared into Jared's eyes, and the strangest thing happened. All the melting and melding I had just been through was shoved aside, into the smallest part of my body, the little corner that I took up physically. The rest of me yearned toward Jared with the same desperate, half-crazed hunger I'd felt since the first time I'd seen him here. This body barely belonged to me or to Melanie-it belonged to him.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eye, Melting, Half

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• Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Revenge, Different, Hunger

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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