Desperation Quotes

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play.

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!

Desperation is the result of globalization.

I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.

There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that smooth out the edges.

Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.

If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

There's no deodorant for desperation.

Inspiration in desperation.

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

I've been traveling a lot, and I'm seeing a lot of desperation everywhere in America. A lot of sad desperation.