The more you expect,the harder you slapped your face to deal the your own disappointments. — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
“He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn’t come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.” — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Supplication comes from a place of intrinsic desperation resulting from a broken and contrite heart.” — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover. — Mooji 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
“Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“He snatched up the reins again, holding her tight. There was nothing affectionate or remotely romantic about the gesture; it was desperation,… — S.A. Chakraborty Copy Share Image
“To be honest, I don’t think so. I think what’s made me better is success and money. Lack of success made me… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
“It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Desperation has a way of sapping the souls of men, and once you make a compromise on one thing the next becomes… — Ken Lozito 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
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
My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“Imagine all of L.A. filled with windup men wandering empty-headed and waiting for orders and directions and purpose. That’s L.A. in a… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
“If that child dreaming by the wireless had been asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, what I had… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere though of impending death acts like an aphrodisiac.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I was shaking so hard, I could barely get the door unlocked. I just got the door shut behind me when I… — Dakota Madison Copy Share Image
I think there is a lot of crime caused by desperation, and it doesn't mean that people commit crime because they're poor,… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image