Desperation Quotes
283 quotes by 248 authors
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to…
— Susan B. Anthony
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The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
— David L. Katz
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In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience…
— Al-Ghazali
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In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted.…
— Anne Truitt
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Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively…
— Arthur Kleinman
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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 thousand half-hearted, talkative…
— Robert McNamara
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
— Vernon Howard
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You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes holdJust that something so good…
— Ian Curtis
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Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival,
— Colin Farrell
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be…
— Laura Dern
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I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
— Harry Shearer
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
— Albert Brooks
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Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.
— Jessica Walter
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You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I…
— Johnny Cash
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As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not…
— Billy Corgan
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I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if…
— Winston Churchill
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Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best
— Bob Geldof
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I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.
— Randy Harrison
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I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that…
— John Baldessari
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