Quiet Desperation Quotes
19 quotes by 15 authors
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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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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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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
— Roger Waters
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The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives…
— Frederick Lenz
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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
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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
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I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.
— Richard Eyre
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I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that…
— Harry Nilsson
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.
— Deepak Chopra
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting…
— Wallace Stegner
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come…
— Ravi Zacharias
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On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the…
— Banksy
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The very moment you are gone, I miss you. Quiet desperation, exquisite anticipation screaming, for your return. A type of Madness, perfect clarity, waiting, trembling,…
— Vladislas Nikilovic
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Or so the poet says. But not…
— Richard Stidham
Who Wrote These Quiet Desperation Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 19 Quiet Desperation Quotes as follows: