What are some quotes about desperation?

Answer 1

"There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime." - Victor Hugo

"Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention." -Doug Horton

"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius." - Benjamin Disraeli