Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

“Christopher Lassiter pinched the top of his nose and closed his eyes. Quiet desperation is the English way.”

— Paul Cornell

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 thousand half-hearted,…

— Robert McNamara

Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are…

— Jennifer James

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet…

— Richard Eyre

Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you…

— Laura Z. Hobson

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

— Henry David Thoreau

Everyone's looking at me, I'm running 'round in circles, a quiet desperation's building higher, i've got to remember this is just a game.

— 30 Seconds To Mars

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

— Peter Bregman

Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or…

— Anonymous

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs,…

— Sebastian Junger

We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth,…

— Paul Bowles