No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows! — Bob Thaves Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation! — Ray Milland Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of… — Jim McDonald Copy Share Image
Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everyone's looking at me, I'm running 'round in circles, a quiet desperation's building higher, i've got to remember this is just a… — 30 Seconds To Mars Copy Share Image
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical.… — Harry Nilsson Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He doesn’t lock the door anymore—not out of courage, but quiet desperation. Each night, he lies there, hollowed and waiting, hoping a… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Or so the poet… — Richard Stidham Copy Share Image
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 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
“Who among us does not move through life with the hidden sense, maybe even quiet desperation, that we are destined for more?” — Peter Bregman Copy Share Image
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Christopher Lassiter pinched the top of his nose and closed his eyes. Quiet desperation is the English way.” — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
