Desperation Quotes

283 Desperation quotes by 248 unique authors

It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back… — Olivia Wilde
The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life.… — Tullian Tchividjian
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and… — Charlotte Bronte
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. — Henry David Thoreau
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation. — Charles Bukowski
Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to… — Javier MarÃas
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. — Evan Esar
The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's in, he can't go… — Aimee Mann
there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This… — Khaled Hosseini
Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide… — Woody Allen
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they… — Elizabeth Gilbert
On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed.… — Junot Diaz
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce… — Junot Diaz
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense… — Richard Wright
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. — Deepak Chopra
I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a… — Oprah Winfrey
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind. — Sue Miller
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Henry David Thoreau
But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her… — Anne Rice
Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart… — Janette Rallison
The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish. — Libba Bray
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone… — Anthony Bourdain
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation. — Roberto Bolano
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. — R. Scott Bakker

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