Desperation Quotes

283 Desperation quotes by 248 unique authors

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty. — Ray LaMontagne
Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not… — Jennifer James
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming… — Jamaica Kincaid
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist.… — Lee Child
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation. — Robbie Robertson
Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now… — Harold Speed
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation. — Peter S. Prescott
I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe… — Victor Salva
The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential. — Jim McDonald
Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state… — Leo Tolstoy
Despair makes victims sometimes victors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our… — May Sarton
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. — Stephanie Mills
You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might… — Claude Monet
such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art… — Ludwig van Beethoven
If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover. — Mooji
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me… — Max Ehrmann
My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic.… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman
Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. — Gerhard Richter
I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected. — M H Abrams
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. — Yann Martel
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life… — Carrie P. Meek
I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're… — Orson Welles
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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