Desperate

Famous quotes containing the word desperate:

“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 (1874–1963)

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

“The sea
takes on that desperate tone
of dark that wives put on
when all their love is done.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)