You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Desperate times call for desperate measures.” “I don’t care how desperate you are.” — Maya Bode Copy Share Image
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“Dear brother," Number Two replied, "I can eat shit, I just don't like the taste.” — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
So many people get into lifeless comfy boring relationships for the sake of not being alone, stir up drama and cause each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“You always have to be prepared that the thing we want most desperately to happen may not happen the way we think.… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I… — Woody Allen 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
Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Too many people are desperate for love. They'll do anything to be loved. They'll even let people use them and disrespect them… — Sonya Parker 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
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“It is a gray and a lonely place in which we live, all of us, swinging between desperation and emptiness, and all… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to… — David Wallace Copy Share Image
The legacy of the embargo will be Cuba's poverty and desperation. When the island comes out of it, they'll be even more… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
If you censor yourself, if you cannot articulate your needs, if you cannot articulate your priorities, then whatever you do, putting a… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland,… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
To know what Fascism really is we must first of all know what it is we are fighting, what the Fascist regimes… — George Seldes Copy Share Image
That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation! — Ray Milland Copy Share Image
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
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