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)

“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.”
—Guy Fawkes (1570–1606)