Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit…

I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a…

— Alan Lightman

An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.

— Richard Jefferies

“We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't…

— James W. Loewen

“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

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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