“ People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed. Charles Bukowski
“ There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk, and be responsi… William Styron
“ If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say? Steven Erikson
“ Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and go… Lauren DeStefano
“ Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it, a low hum like the buzz of a sick bee that resonated with th… Sol Luckman
“ The desperation in his voice was misplaced and as his eyes danced over my face I knew he was just as broken as I was. That kiss, those caresses—the feeling of his skin against mine had shattered our p… Cassandra Giovanni
“ I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to… Lauren DeStefano
“ We're not going to make it," I said.The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Leslie had said to me when we were discussing Shannon's and Antoinetta's disappearance? 'You're beginning to… Brian Keene
“ The truth is, living in any society is difficult. Those who become desperate with a fractured sense of security are much more prone to being taken advantaged of. John-Talmage Mathis
“ If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive an ideal society which men can reach if only they do what is necessary to attain it, then you and yo… Isaiah Berlin
“ To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of humanity that you’d so hastily give up. Immortality is overrated. It is nothing… Sophia Whittemore
“ Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touche… Galt Niederhoffer
“ The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst. Travis Luedke
“ The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself. Kate Morton
“ This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens. Danielle Paige
“ There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own imprudence, by the reckless Salina pride; and now, just at the moment when her memories had come al… Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
“ People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
