"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and……" — Henry David Thoreau
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
More Desperation Quotes
- The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all… — Jean Baudrillard
- Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected.… — Benazir Bhutto
- We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. — Anthony Burgess
- Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in… — William S. Burroughs
- People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what… — George Carlin
- I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything.… — Jim Carrey
- People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. — Jim Carrey
- There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation. — Harlan Coben
- Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. — Trevor McDonald
- Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully… — Soren Kierkegaard
- It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard,… — Sidney Crosby
- Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good… — Bob Carlisle