Top 57 A Desperate Man Quotes

#1. Tempt not a desperate man

William Shakespeare

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#2. The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream!

J.K. Rowling

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#3. Hope is a desperate man's currency.

Paul Tremblay

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#4. Some lioness whelped you on a mountain rock
In Libya, or else you're Scylla's child
Whose womb's all barking dogs, for only a wild
Beast with the nature of a beast could mock
A desperate man making a last appeal
Down on his knees. Bitch heart too hard to feel!

Catullus

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#5. Now on a sloping meadow hours into a fresh day, he found himself a desperate man, struggling to free himself from the shackles of a life he had not pursued. And her voice trickled through him, an icicle perpetually melting.

Simon Van Booy

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#6. Even with tear gas, tommy guns and a police cordon, there is no way to take a desperate man without risking your life.

Ross Macdonald

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#7. Mine were the actions of a desperate man. Present a defining moment to one and he'll bite every time.

Larry Brooks

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#8. He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of love eats a man up.

Dorothy Allison

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#9. Go get your gun because God won't show.
He sent a poet instead.
The Don Quixote of the ICU. Quite impressive for a cripple. Munchhausen by proxy of a muse.
Tempt not a desperate man. This split lip is for you. I traded it for an outdated tooth.

Keith Buckley

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#10. He's an indulgent sort of man ... ...
With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships.

Coco J. Ginger

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#11. Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.

Florence King

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#12. Love was a desperate thing, fierce and ferocious, capable of consuming a man like invisible fire

Judith McNaught

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#13. Satan and that man is still man even after 1000 years of the righteous, benevolent rule of Christ on earth. Even under the most ideal circumstances imaginable, man is still totally depraved and in desperate need of a new heart by the regeneration of the Spirit of God.

Mark Hitchcock

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#14. The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply than usual would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who laboured to produce it.

Paulo Coelho

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#15. The desperate truth of Lolita's story is not the rape of a twelve-year-old by a dirty old man but the confiscation of one individual's life by another.

Azar Nafisi

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#16. The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said.

Peter S. Beagle

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#17. A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.

Robert F. Kennedy

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#18. A man in the trading center was caught trying to sell his two young daughters. The buyer had informed the police. People were becoming desperate.

William Kamkwamba

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#19. In these books, there were spells and rituals for making a living soul something hungry and desperate like him, but he didn't find likelihood in any of them. All it told him was that man was terrified of nothing so much as death. Having died, he could think of dozens of things more worth his fear.

Thomm Quackenbush

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#20. What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends.

Stephen King

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#21. You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than any Babylon or Sodom, and quite, as I believe, of a lost, desperate and hopeless impiety.

Martin Luther

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#22. A man in love with a woman in love with another man is the second most desperate creature on the earth."
"What's the first?"
"A man in love with a man in love with another woman."
Eleanor laughed. Kingsley didn't.

Tiffany Reisz

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#23. And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

George Combe

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#24. ONCE HE KNEW HOW to do things in Washington, he started doing them - with the same frenzied, driven, almost desperate energy he had displayed in Cotulla and Houston, the energy of a man fleeing from something dreadful.

Robert A. Caro

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#25. The theologian is interested specifically in the modern novel because there he sees reflected the man of our time, the unbeliever, who is nevertheless grappling in a desperate and usually honest way with intense problems of the spirit.

Flannery O'Connor

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#26. 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. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

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#27. If a boat is shattered by a storm, the desperate passengers cling to the floating pieces of the hull. In that moment, it's not a broken boat. To a drowning man, it's a floating miracle.

Elmer Seward

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#28. Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

Garry Trudeau

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#29. There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take
it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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#30. 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

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#31. it was times like these when a man in a desperate situation must take whatever madness is offered to escape the darker madness in which he finds himself trapped.

Sean F. Hogan

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#32. If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.

Shannon L. Alder

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#33. Crawford, ever wary of desire, knew how badly he wanted to be wise. He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him.

Thomas Harris

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#34. Many boyfriends or close male friends seem so different when they are by themselves, as opposed to when they are with a bunch of other guys. I think it has to do with the desperate desire on the part of guys to be seen as a "real guy" - a real man, a man's man.

Michael Kimmel

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#35. Once in a stately passion I cried with desperate grief
'Oh Lord, my heart is black with guile, of sinners I am chief'
Then stooped my guardian angel and whispered from behind
'Vanity my little man, you're nothing of the kind'

James Thomson

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#36. I just got really desperate to pay rent. It was weird, man. I had to wrestle a fake pussy off a crack head once.

Gold Panda

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#37. It's an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream incontinently in a cave at daybreak.

O. Henry

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#38. Was it possible - was it at all possible that she could come out of her most desperate choice with a man as clever as Odysseus who looked like Achilles and made love like Paris ... ?

Sherry Thomas

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#39. I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

James Nesbitt

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#40. sometimes victory doesn't go to the strongest or swiftest. Sometimes it goes to a desperate dead man with deep pockets.

Tim Waggoner

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#41. Be that as it may, it's all I have to work with. Clutching these faded, fading, imperfect memories to my breast, I go on writing this book with all the desperate intensity of a starving man sucking on bones.

Anonymous

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#42. I had lost all perspective; I was wandering in a desperate purgatory (with a gray man in a gray boat in a gray river: an apathetic Charon dawdling upon a passionless phlegmatic River Styx ... and a petulant Christ child bawling on the train ... ).

Sylvia Plath

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#43. I saw an old woman dressed in seatcovers, sewn into a dress, a man in a jacket made from a flag. It gave them an air of desperate grandeur, like guests at an asylum ball.

Sebastian Faulks

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#44. More and more, it seems to me, modern individualism assumes the form of a desperate denial of the fact that, through mimetic desire, each of us seeks to impose his will upon his fellow man, whom he

Rene Girard

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#45. One day I'll be a soldier," Ganoes said.
The man grunted. "Only if you fail at all else, son. Taking the sword is the last act of desperate men. Mark my words and find yourself a more worthy dream.

Steven Erikson

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#46. Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

Giancarlo Esposito

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#47. There is nothing that will make a man more desperate and more capable of violence than endangering his family.

Brian McClellan

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#48. The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a subjugated plain, Among it's desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips.

W. H. Auden

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#49. I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

Oliver Platt

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#50. Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

George Santayana

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#51. I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.

Stef Wertheimer

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#52. Do not be angry with the audacity of a desperate and drowning man for making a last effort to save himself from perdition.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#53. My team of people around me, they were like, 'Don't be waiting and begging for a man.' You know what I'm saying? Like, 'Don't be desperate because you think having a boyfriend is going to be better. It might be harder with your career.' And then I was like, 'Yeah, you're right. I need to enjoy this.

Meghan Trainor

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#54. ...man can survive ...he can kill and be twisted and broken and desperate and insane and fuck barnyard pets in the dark and wear a dress if he chooses, and hate and destroy everything that's beautiful, and wish for death for himself and others with every breath, and still be a perfect child of God.

Dan Fante

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#55. Man's capacity to dig himself in, to secrete a shell, to build around himself a tenuous barrier of defence, even in apparently desperate circumstances, is astonishing and merits a serious study.

Primo Levi

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#56. His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

Freya North

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#57. I played the mini-tours for a lot of years, and man, you see some weird things out there. There are a lot of desperate people, strange personalities and marginal players, and with that you're going to see some cheating.

Boo Weekley

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