Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“At 6:15 she was standing on her front porch watering gardenias and watching another line of thunderstorms split and go around her.… — Andrew Geyer Copy Share Image
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it,… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation. — Randy Harrison Copy Share Image
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
“It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation! — Ray Milland Copy Share Image
“I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and… — Sharon E. Rainey Copy Share Image
Don't be too desperate about everything, it'll only makes you feel like a loser when you don't get it, you have to… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it… — Sidney Crosby Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes holdJust that… — Ian Curtis Copy Share Image
“Oh, God,” Wilhelm prayed, “Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience… — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
We don't attack any veteran, at all, ever, for their service record. We thank them. And the fact that somebody wanted to… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
Like carnivores to carnal pleasures as are we to desperate measures. — Harvey Danger Copy Share Image
Never be desperate. Get rid of insecurities. Believe in yourself. Know what you want and go out and get it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think our last kiss was meant to be quick and chaste, but after the first touch of his lips fire leaped… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I'd love to be a director-for-hire and get a nice paycheck and captain one of those big ships, but I think studios… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
