Once your heart has been broken, you look for something in every guy to fix it. — Jahniah M Copy Share Image
As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation. — Donovan Copy Share Image
“A woman's voice answered, "Hello?" Walter cried back at her, "Hello, oh Lord, hello!" "This is a recording," recited the woman's voice.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain. — Theodore Dreiser 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
“The desperation in his voice was misplaced and as his eyes danced over my face I knew he was just as broken… — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'" P244” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There is also this great sense of triumphalism, that just as we defeated the Soviet Union, we can do this. And out… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“But she stopped herself. That wouldn't make it right. You didn't forgive because it was the only choice you thought you had.… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
