The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of… — Jim McDonald Copy Share Image
“He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
“He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o' aught on earth. He thought God could na be harder than… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical.… — Harry Nilsson Copy Share Image
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness. — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The feeling between two fighters is profound. We go places where normal people don't go. You smell a man's blood, it smells… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The force that has overcome Europe and destroyed entire states within days could cope with us, a handful of youngsters. It was… — Mordechaj Tenenbaum Copy Share Image
Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation. — Paula White Copy Share Image
“I know the hard ground and the taste of the salt water I’m made of and the way even getting out of… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
'Beyond Glory' is responsible for this wave that I've been fortunate enough to ride for the last few years. And that I… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
