Desperate Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• 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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• Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Loss, Animal, Desperate Situations

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• Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

  George Osborne

  Government, Printing Money, Lasts

  "Easy money: George Osborne lets Bank of England print £50billion more cash to stave off recession" by Graham Hiscott, www.mirror.co.uk. February 10, 2012.

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• The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

  Vikas Swarup

  Firsts, Notes, Cupboards

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• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  Maeve Binchy

  Mad, Suffering, Saint

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• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  Maeve Binchy

  Morning, Pain, People

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• Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Attitude, Children, Gay

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• But desperate people find courage.

  Ken Follett

  People

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.315, Penguin

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• Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.

  Karl Popper

  Beautiful, Dream, Attitude

  Karl Raimund Popper (1950). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”

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• When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

  Albert Camus

  Fall, Responsibility, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

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• I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

  Helen Garner

  Dream, Writing, Self

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• [If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It would be a desperate move, but that's what it'll take to get rid of Reagan. Ms. Ferraro is no more unqualified than a lot of Vice Presidential candidates have been, and anyhow Mondale's in good health.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Running, Moving, Presidential

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• We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.

  Dave Matthews

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.

  George Herbert

  Enemy, Victory, May

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• As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.

  Sergio Perez

  Dream, Winning, Race

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