Lives Of Quiet Desperation Quotes

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

— Bob Thaves

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

— Henry David Thoreau

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

— Ray Milland

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives…

— Richard Eyre

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

— Henry David Thoreau

One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a…

— Robert McNamara

“We're not the madwomen in the attic – they get lots of play, one way or another. We're the quiet woman at…

— Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs

The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature…

— Henry David Thoreau

The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh…

— Frederick Lenz

Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that…

— Sterling Hayden

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical.…

— Harry Nilsson

“We’re the quiet woman at the end of the third-floor hallway, whose trash is always tidy, who smiles brightly in the stairwell…

— Claire Messud

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Or so the poet…

— Richard Stidham