Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

“One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the "ultimate weapon," and…

— Noam Chomsky

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.”

— Anne Gracie

“Desperation breeds people who are willing to do anything to get what they need.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“Soon, I found myself locked in my own cage of fear and desperation, where my experience of life was getting smaller and smaller.”

— Anita Moorjani

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

— Amanda Hocking

“In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.”

— Bryant McGill

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Nishan Panwar

“Who among us does not move through life with the hidden sense, maybe even quiet desperation, that we are destined for more?”

— Peter Bregman

Lol, the thirst on SQ is serious.

— Maher

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom…

— Jonathan Tropper

“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.”

— Craig Ferguson