Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Desperation Quotes

Desperation Oppression Power Struggles Resistance People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Edmund Burke

Afterlife Desperation Faith Religious Beliefs If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Charles Spurgeon

Darkness Desperation Existence Morality Sacrifice If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Khalil Gibran

Poet and Writer

Desperation Fame Grief Mortality Transience I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

Angela Lansbury

American-British-Irish actress and singer

Desperation Inspiration Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Desperation Prayer Profanity Relief Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

American writer and humorist