“Hope, that palliative of every human suffering: in desperation, we cling to the flimsiest of straws.” — Cyrus Mistry Copy Share Image
“People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. — Evan Esar 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
Desperation sells you to weak people that use weaker people. Exercise patience and faith along with Gods timing. — Marala Scott Copy Share Image
“Desperation breeds people who are willing to do anything to get what they need.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“No, if your life is without pain and anger and desperation then you are living it all wrong. You are not living… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
“Princess, the whole idea of one grand gesture is bull shit. If you’re with someone who never shows you they care in… — Devon Herrera Copy Share Image
“Everything I did only made this emptiness grow because all my actions were reactionary. I acted in desperation, trying to run, trying… — Eva Yin Copy Share Image
I found meditation. It was more out of pure desperation: I just started to wake up at 5 and sit for one… — Vicky Krieps Copy Share Image
I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from,… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. .… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“They are the end all, be all. They are the memory you fight never to lose. They are the part of yourself… — Eden Butler Copy Share Image
On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“The media and the movies are showing you their desperation as they insist in presenting to the masses information that is completely… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of… — Sophia Whittemore Copy Share Image
“But commercialism is the last sinkhole of love, and when reached, by paths of desperation and paths of cruelty, misused emotions—all hope… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“He climbed out of the car, feeling stiff and awkward with that hot heavy weight between his legs, that miserable unsatisfied ball… — Rachel Haimowitz Copy Share Image
“We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information. — Tyga Copy Share Image
“When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.” — Evelyn Waugh 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
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind. — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we don't know that it's best to run. Hanging on in desperation seems to be our way.” — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Confidence definitely did not get me here! More of, like, desperation. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
It's like every time I'm standing on the edge, they always find a way to pull me back — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Then you're mine," she said in desperation. "Then you belong to me." "With everything I am” — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
