Desperation Quotes · Page 6

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival,

— Colin Farrell

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

— Susan Sontag

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

— Benazir Bhutto

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

— Vernon Howard

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

— Leonard Cohen

“I don't have anything to give you, except to show you a way to better yourself.”

— Kien Nguyen

Never allow yourself to be desperate. Desperate people take too much.

— Gian Lewis Joseph

“Don't mistake determination for desperation. Someone who is persistent will stop at nothing to get their way.”

— Mary Sage Nguyen

One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a…

— Robert McNamara

We all want to be loved and that's ok. What's not ok is being desperate on trying to find one. Desperation causes…

— Anonymous

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies'…

— Desmond Tutu

For when last need to desperation driveth, Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth. [It., Che spesso avvien che ne' maggior perigli…

— Torquato Tasso

“Well, she wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of desperation in…

— Oscar Wilde

So many people get into lifeless comfy boring relationships for the sake of not being alone, stir up drama and cause each…

— Anonymous

“You always have to be prepared that the thing we want most desperately to happen may not happen the way we think.…

— Art Hochberg

“...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..”

— John Geddes

“Your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt…

— Brett Gelman

“These last few months Vida had started believing in all kinds of strange things she'd have laughed at when we lived back…

— Judith Clarke

“She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always…

— Simon Van Booy

“Desperation is a great giver of clarity: Bartimaeus needed no time to decide what to do next. “Jesus! Son of David!” he…

— Sherri Gragg

“But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching.…

— Arundhati Roy

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting…

— Martha Beck

At some point you will realize that you have done too much for someone, that the only next possible step to do…

— Zoya

In exams, we look up for inspiration, down for desperation, left and right for information.

— Nishan Panwar

I hate when people do that desperate act just for attention.

— Robert Escalate

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

— David L. Katz

It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.

— Neal Katyal

“Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.”

— William Shakespeare

During exams, students look up for inspiration, down in desperation, and left and right for information.

— Anonymous

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

— M. H. Abrams

“Nice. I like a little desperation in a guy. It builds character.”

— Stacey Kade

“My heart's not telling me anything. It's screaming in desperation to find Laurelyn and tell her how much I love her.”

— Georgia Cates

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

— Simon Sinek

My desperation to be on the stage and perform was like a vocation, a religious calling.

— David Jason

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

— Bob Thaves

“If silence could break bones, I would shatter right now, into pieces of stomachache and blueprints and desperation.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Desperate times call for desperate measures.” “I don’t care how desperate you are.”

— Maya Bode

We villians are a very select group indeed. In the very desperation of our hate rests our strength.

— Cyclops

Single and ready to mingle? That's just another way to say I'm desperate and will take anyone in a way that rhymes.

— Anonymous