Quotes of: Desperately Keyword

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

The Book of Ivy

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.

Bayard Taylor

As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the em...

Jane Goodall

It's not like I think: 'By the age of 40 I've got to be an international household name.' When the opportunity to perform comes up, then I'll take it. It's really good fun. But because I don't crave the attention or the buzz, it's not like I'm desper...

Stephen Merchant

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

Intruder in the Dust

There was nothing sweet or gentle in our last kiss; it was filled with sorrow and desperation, of the bitter knowledge that we could've had something perfect, but it just wasn't meant to be.

The Iron Daughter

But, as I say, I was too full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.

Stuart: A Life Backwards

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

The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance. And yet we suffer, many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives.

Shackles of Honor

His jeans, soft against her legs, made her realize that twice tonight they'd done the deed with him more dressed than not. She liked such desperation in a man.

Murphy's Law

...love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.

Manic: A Memoir

We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.

Mayfly Requiem

Smartass Disciple: I've been searching for so long.I still can't find the truth. Master of Stupidity: Until you've lost and felt desperate, you won't be found.

Master of Stupidity

Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.

Never Apply for a Job Again!: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

Neverwhere

Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman

Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman

As a species we're doomed by hope, then? You could call it hope. That, or desperation. But we're doomed without hope, as well, said Jimmy. Only as individuals, said Crake cheerfully.

Oryx and Crake

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.

The Last Lion 1: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

Autumn is a season of desperate hopes. The leaves are souls begging to turn life on pause. Begging to stop, begging to take a break, hiding under smiles and childish words.

Listen to the Leaves