26 Movie Quotes about Desperation (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Mar 29, 2026

Memorable quotes about desperation, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 Mr. Rhodes, is this you? -Uh, who wants to know? -A group of rather desperate chickens.

Mel Gibson as Ginger; Mel Gibson as Rocky in Chicken Run

22 People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored.

Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996)

23 And as the impotence of those days faded into memory, grim desperation took a hold in his sex-crazed mind.

Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996)

24 They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.

Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining (1980)

25 It was only desperation that drove me to this.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

26 For all its desperation, the pursuit seemed fruitless.

Arthur Franz as Commander "Reef" Holloway in The Atomic Submarine