Desperation Quotes

283 quotes by 256 authors

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us… — Jean Baudrillard
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness… — Benazir Bhutto
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. — Anthony Burgess
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. — William S. Burroughs
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think. — George Carlin
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate… — Jim Carrey
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. — Jim Carrey
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation. — Harlan Coben
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. — Trevor McDonald
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with… — Soren Kierkegaard
It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it was one game,… — Sidney Crosby
Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption. — Bob Carlisle
I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman… — Susan B. Anthony
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a… — George C. Marshall
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen
Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight… — Martin Luther
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation. — Pietro Aretino
Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration! — Denise Austin

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