Desperate

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)

“O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)