Desperate may refer to:
- Despair (emotion), a feeling of hopelessness
- Desperate (film), a 1947 suspense film directed by Anthony Mann
- Desperate (Divinyls album)
- Desperate (Daphne Khoo album)
- "Desperate" (Daphne Khoo song)
- "Desperate", a song by David Archuleta from David Archuleta (album)
- "Desperate", a song by Fireflight from For Those Who Wait
- "Desperate", a song by Suburban Legends from Suburban Legends
Famous quotes containing the word desperate:
“Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)
“Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.”
—Lewis Mumford (18951990)
“He took him down below a cramping rafter,
And showed him, through a manhole in the floor,
The water in desperate straits like frantic fish,
Salmon and sturgeon, lashing with their tails.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)