Desperation Quotes

283 Desperation quotes by 248 unique authors

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
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
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation. — Vernon Howard
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
Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival, — Colin Farrell
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
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. — Harry Shearer
Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive? — Albert Brooks
Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior. — Jessica Walter
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
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
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
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best — Bob Geldof
I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation. — Randy Harrison
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
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. — William Weld
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can… — Willem de Kooning
When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let… — Frank Herbert
Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty.… — David Wallace
(The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths… — Joe Walsh
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. — Bill Walsh
Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where… — Simon Barnes
Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how… — Gary Haugen
The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest… — John Welwood
In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had… — Richard Matheson

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