Top 100 In Desperation Quotes
#1. When I was in High School I fell for pretty much any girl I ever met. But I was so desperate that I couldn't get any of them because they sensed my desperation! After many, many years, I learned to relax and just be myself.
Jack Black
#2. In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#3. If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
Erik Larson
#4. The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reveals Himself more often in darkness than in the happy moments of life.
Dan B. Allender
#5. Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
Edi Rama
#6. We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#7. This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens.
Danielle Paige
#8. Lying is manipulation. I prefer to call what I did 'improvisation in times of desperation.
Katie Kacvinsky
#9. In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.
Pauline Reage
#10. The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.
Jane Hirshfield
#12. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.
D.R. Silva
#13. It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?
Fiona Mountain
#14. 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
#15. Nice. I like a little desperation in
a guy. It builds character.
Stacey Kade
#16. 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 busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.
Robert McNamara
#17. The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem.
Joe Klein
#18. It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can't just let them leave.
Chloe Rattray
#19. 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 rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.
Oprah Winfrey
#20. But when I touch you, your aura ... it smolders. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydney?" He used that hand to pull me closer. "Why do you react that way if I don't mean anything to you?" There was a desperation in his voice, and it was legitimate.
Richelle Mead
#21. Help me....Hellmouth, oh where art thou, hellmouth? Why have you forsaken me in my hour of desperation? Open quick and I'll throw myself in.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#22. Don't ever let desperation take the seat of inspiration in you! Always live inspired no matter what! For though something might be wrong somewhere, something is always right somewhere! If you have life, be alive and smile!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#23. The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.
John Hart
#24. Rincewind switched to High Borogravian, to Vanglemesht, Sumtri and even Black Oroogu, the language with no nouns and only one adjective, which is obscene. Each was met with polite incomprehension. In desperation he tried heathen Trob, and the little man's face split into a delighted grin.
Terry Pratchett
#25. Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.
Darrell Gurney
#26. I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't do anything.
Betty Hutton
#27. When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.
Dean Koontz
#28. Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
David Platt
#29. It is not the gentle kiss of a couple on a first date, nor is it the kiss of a man driven by simple lust. He kisses me with the desperation of a dying man who believes the magic of eternal life is in this kiss.
Susan Ee
#30. It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.
Nadine Velazquez
#31. Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.
T.M. Williams
#32. Because every urge but survival had been reduced to nothing, they had become a mutual will, like that which caused whole peoples to unite in desperation.
Ernest K. Gann
#33. We don't attack any veteran, at all, ever, for their service record. We thank them. And the fact that somebody wanted to do that for political gain, shows the desperation of which some people unfortunately in the Republican Party want to keep and seize power.
Matt Shea
#34. Would the realization of Sukhvinder's desperation lead, at last, to some crack in her mother's implacable disapproval, her disappointment, her endless stone-faced criticism?
J.K. Rowling
#35. Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's all about banishment or punishment or forced destitution - all of which creates more desperation, and more social risk-taking by people in moments of crisis.
Terre Thaemlitz
#36. I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.
Edward Hirsch
#37. As much automatic, Abnegation-bred sympathy as I have for the people living in this place, I am also afraid of them. If they are like the factionless, then they are surely desperate like the factionless, and I am wary of desperate people.
Veronica Roth
#38. 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 her heart.
Janette Rallison
#39. The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.
Tullian Tchividjian
#40. silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the past.
Anthony Doerr
#41. 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 gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.
Anthony Bourdain
#42. Grace headed in desperation for the coffeemaker. Apparently it was going to be one of those mornings. Funny how often those happened after a short night's sleep.
Thea Harrison
#43. He swallowed, his Adam's apple bobbing in his throat. Need assaulted him. In his entire life, he'd never felt desire like this. Or the desperation to touch, to hold, to own.
Jess Dee
#44. Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.
Anne Rice
#45. Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs
#46. How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
Laini Taylor
#47. If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.
William Blake
#48. There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.
Zedd
#49. In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.
Pawan Mishra
#50. Fear is knocking at your door twenty four seven in desperation to destroy your dreams.
Euginia Herlihy
#51. The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
Anne Lamott
#52. There were perhaps fifteen students in varying stages of desperation, each moving with frenetic pace in the circle of hell reserved for procrastinators.
Lee Doty
#53. Promise me," I grunted in desperation as I moved against her. "Promise you'll never leave me.
A.L. Jackson
#54. My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.
Steven Callahan
#55. I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it before-the desperation, the agony, the need to find a reason to go on, and the inability to find it.
Mary Beth Miller
#56. The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
Billy Ray Cyrus
#57. Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.
V. Raymond Edman
#58. Was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.
Charlotte Bronte
#59. His jeans, soft against her legs, made her realize that twice tonight they'd done the deed with him more dressed than not. She liked such desperation in a man.
Marilyn Pappano
#60. That the regime was willing to hit itts chief political constituency in the pocket was a clear sign of desperation.
Peter Heather
#61. Man stands on the brink of hell. The forces building up in our world are so overwhelming that man everywhere is beginning to cry out in desperation: What must I do to be saved?
Billy Graham
#62. Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.
John Money
#63. How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable to see them.
D. Morgenstern
#64. Loneliness is painful; Solitude is peaceful. Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to respect others in their uniqueness and create community ...
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#65. The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.
Rick Moody
#66. I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out a hand in desperation.
Thomas Perry
#67. Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
Martha Beck
#68. (as a single woman in my early thirties, I was careful not to coo excessively over other people's infants, lest it seem like I was telegraphing my desperation; the necessity of this precaution annoyed me, making me want to defiantly announce that I'd always liked babies,
Curtis Sittenfeld
#69. Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. I had tasted cake and there was no going back. My tiny body had morphed into a writhing mass of pure tenacity encased in a layer of desperation. I would eat all of the cake or I would evaporate from the sheer power of my desire to eat it.
Allie Brosh
#71. Threats betray the speaker by proving that he has failed to influence events in any other way. Most often they represent desperation, not intention.
Gavin De Becker
#72. AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.
Leonard Peltier
#73. Charlie said, his voice rising an octave in desperation. "I know it's ridiculous, but I keep trying to rationalise everything and it's driving me crazy. Did you spot that flying horse earlier? I found myself trying to explain it with Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Victor Kloss
#74. He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.
J.K. Rowling
#75. 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 with either of her desires.
Woody Allen
#76. I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.
Tove Lo
#77. My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
Damian Marley
#78. When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
Peter Lynch
#79. Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#80. A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.
Jeremy Corbyn
#81. But desperation does funny things to a person. Makes you grasp for any sliver of hope. Makes you throw rational thought and logic out the window. Makes you act in ways you would never have imagined possible. Turns strong men into weak. Honest men into liars.
Siobhan Davis
#82. Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.
Simon Barnes
#83. Princess, the whole idea of one grand gesture is bull shit. If
you're with someone who never shows you they care in the little
ways and then they do one huge drastic thing, that's not love,
that's desperation." -Connor Wright
Devon Herrera
#84. When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.
Emraan Hashmi
#85. In Panama, I found a spider that eats its own limbs during lean times. I am told they grow back. But though the distinction is razor-thin, desperation is not the same thing as determination. Nevertheless, auto-cannibalism is one the most intriguing phenomenon I have ever heard of.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#87. What I resorted to in desperation - prayer - was what I should have turned to first. I felt as if God had tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, mind if I give it a try?
John Green
#88. Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.
Henry Rollins
#89. If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.
Neale Donald Walsch
#90. I take a deep breath. I'm not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but know that I've acknowledge it, it's impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. It writhes in my stomach and throat. I need to leave. I need the truth.
Veronica Roth
#91. True love doesn't have a sick desperation to it, and undercurrent of doom. People who burn that brightly still get burned in the end.
Karina Halle
#92. You scream it in everything you do. You're holding on to what happened because you think that's all you have."
"It is all I have."
"Find more
Jessica Park
#93. The young doe, Marena, said, In this very hour many of us are going to die. Perhaps I shall be one of them.
Felix Salten
#94. I am not a doctor,' I replied, 'I only help those who come to me in desperation. When a man is brought to me naked I do not know his race or allegiance. I will treat the sick, and if you do not allow me to do so, then I will treat no one.
Theresa Breslin
#95. I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.
Brett Gelman
#96. The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#97. There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.
Ray Lamontagne
#98. 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 see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
Willem De Kooning
#99. 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 they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.
Richard Matheson
#100. Something has to get you back to prayer, and in my experience, the surest thing in either case is desperation.
Shauna Niequist
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