Top 100 Quotes About Desperation
#1. I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.
Douglas Carter Beane
#2. This, she thought, was what love and desperation made you do: say things that were better left unsaid, give yourself away in a million little gestures, a thousand little changes of expression.
Cathy Williams
#3. Desperation, she said, feels like someone's reaching down your throat and ripping out your guts.
Charlie LeDuff
#4. Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
Arthur Kleinman
#5. Then the music begins and we can both hear the slow, quiet, sweet desperation of a song I won't mention. Imagine the softest, toughest, most beautiful song you know, and you've got it.
Markus Zusak
#6. He pulled her against his chest, letting her feel his heart thunder its rhythm. Kissing her hair he whispered, the desperation raw, "You are no dream...but flesh and blood. Tell me you are real...oh, please...be real." "Aye, I am real.
Deborah MacGillivray
#7. Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack.
Bryant McGill
#8. I deplore the horrible crime as child murder ... no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed ... but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.
Susan B. Anthony
#9. Like beauty, desperation and fear were as common as breathing.
Dot Hutchison
#10. Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
Pauline Kael
#11. Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
Evan Esar
#12. 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 gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
May Sarton
#13. When you collect bad loans ... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.
John Stumpf
#14. I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.
Deb Caletti
#15. What must be understood is this: attackers attack as a form of defence. It is their instinctive response to threat, real or perceived. It may be desperate or it may be habit, or both, when desperation becomes a way of life. Behind the assault hides a fragile person.
Steven Erikson
#16. Love was insanity at its most beautiful - a madness of desperation and desire that made the most improbable choice possible.
A Meredith Walters
#17. His soul really shone in the dark desperation of our prison ... [Bonhoeffer] had always been afraid that he would not be strong enough to stand such a test but now he knew there was nothing in life of which one need ever be afraid.
Payne Best
#18. If silence could break bones, I would shatter right now, into pieces of stomachache and blueprints and desperation.
Hannah Moskowitz
#19. Her pride had once been a mile wide. So fierce and strong that she'd thought she could survive on the trait alone. The constant ache in her belly, the desperation, Kenny's fate ... all had shown her otherwise.
Anne Mallory
#20. i've learned to kiss you with my eyes. there are times you do not see me as i kiss you with a quiet desperation that you would never understand.
K.Y. Robinson
#21. Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.
Renata Adler
#22. Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.
George C. Marshall
#23. 'Superman' was a total accident. The producers of the animated series were having a hard time finding someone to read the character. I was brought in through a connection and, I think, out of desperation.
Tim Daly
#24. Oh, Abby, he briefly squeezed his eyelids shut, desperation and despair warring for supremacy inside him. Why didn't you leave when you had the chance, mi vida?
Julie Ann Walker
#26. What a gift to know a man well enough to reduce him to desperation so quickly! And what a gift to have him know you just as well.
Kim Fielding
#27. In Ruin City, in the rain, the sound of melancholy is a buzzing maelstrom of quiet desperation. The shatter has been so great, there is no sound left to despair.
Radhika Mukherjee
#28. Learned desperation is at the heart of a praying life.
Paul E. Miller
#29. We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Anthony Burgess
#30. Sometimes I think it's me. I think I must be doing something wrong, giving out subliminal messages so they can smell the desperation, read the neon lights on my forehead ... "KEEP AWAY FROM THIS WOMAN, SHE IS LOOKING FOR COMMITMENT," but most of the time I think it's them. Bastards. All of them.
Jane Green
#31. Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."
He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and golds. "Sometimes we can," he says.
Lauren DeStefano
#32. Zane would keep the secret from his daughter. Desperation drove a man who was afraid. "Thanks." She put
Sarah Castille
#33. 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 community and in many people hope and joy.
Junot Diaz
#34. When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do.
Taylor Swift
#35. Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.
Richard Lloyd
#36. Desperation is energized despair, and despair is the abandonment of hope.
Dean Koontz
#37. Don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..
John Geddes
#38. Businessmen learn the way businessmen are supposed to be. Professors learn the way professors are supposed to be. Construction workers learn how construction workers are supposed to be. They spend their lives trying to be what they're supposed to be and being scared they aren't. Quiet desperation.
Robert B. Parker
#39. The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
Pietro Aretino
#40. He held his hand out to me across the table.
It was harder to take it this time, to make that deliberate choice, without the useful distraction of desperation.
Naomi Novik
#41. Why are so many people struggling with depression and discouragement? They've lost heart. Why can't we seem able to break free of our addictions? Because somewhere along the way, in a moment of carelessness or desperation, we gave our heart away, and now we can't get it back.
John Eldredge
#42. 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. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
Lee Child
#43. Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A
R. Scott Bakker
#44. Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and leading them to drink,to beating or the noose. Was this it?
Panashe Chigumadzi
#45. I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.
Erica Jong
#46. There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
#47. Watching me, judging me, smelling the crippling failure oozing from my skin, my desperation clawing and all-consuming panic drenching me as I gape in horror at the world and wonder why everyone is smiling and looking at me with secret knowledge of my aching shame.
Sarah Kane
#48. Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.
Theodore Dreiser
#51. Supplication comes from a place of intrinsic desperation resulting from a broken and contrite heart.
Robin Bertram
#52. Still, as much as I had experienced, there was more waiting to be found. I had started out with a feeling of burning dullness and desperation. Now I was filled with a thrill and expectation of new discovery.
Peter Jenkins
#53. 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 the bread of hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#54. Cripes, just listen to that desperation mixed with a wild joie de vivre. That doesn't come out of nothing. They'll be able to hear that a massive eruption once rocked the world and scattered pain and passion in it's wake.
Cat Winters
#55. This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.
Mick Cornett
#56. The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
Phoebe Snow
#57. Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
David L. Katz
#58. As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not necessarily correct. But however overly dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality.
Billy Corgan
#59. There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.
Elizabeth Bowen
#60. But once in a while I see a child crying with the deepest of desperation, and I think it is one of the truest sounds a child can make.
Elizabeth Strout
#61. 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 lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.
Javier Marias
#62. Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near.
Philip Yancey
#63. You're getting like an attitude. What you get put through for just wanting something more out of life. Makes you vulnerable. Inside, that tug of desperation, trying not to be excited, maybe this is it, and it's usually freaks and you want to shout I'm not like you.
Sandra Newman
#64. People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!
Bob Thaves
#65. Just one word, infused with naked desperation; half prayer, half enchantment. It felt like a freezing charm on her soul making her his prisoner, yet setting her free all at once.
Genevieve Dewey
#66. I sort of got into Westerns ... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.
James Stewart
#67. Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
Stefan Zweig
#69. Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies
the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#70. You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes holdJust that something so good just can't function no more. When love, love will tear us apart again.
Ian Curtis
#71. By February 2016, when Trump was already steaming toward the nomination, I began to realize the extent to which he'd conned all of us. He first used the media's financial desperation to secure free coverage, but when the attention became not just negative but condemnatory, he used that, too. He
Matt Taibbi
#72. 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 evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.
Victor Salva
#73. The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.
Amanda Hocking
#74. To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.
Carlos Castaneda
#75. In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.
Tara Brach
#76. Ryoga to Ranma: 'Desperation Strike' my steely buttocks! I thought you were a fighter!
Rumiko Takahashi
#77. Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
Robert Crumb
#78. When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#79. Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#80. As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation.
Helen Garner
#81. Fear will make a person grasp in desperation for answers--be they truth or fable.
Beem Weeks
#82. I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.
Francis Spufford
#83. The uncertainty, the fear of the unknown was driving him, almost to the point of desperation. He felt as if he was going down a dark stairway, missing a step, hurtling into the unknown and having no idea where he would land.
Ken Puddicombe
#84. President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation.
Jay Leno
#85. If you give desperation any wiggle room, it will toy with you.
Harlan Coben
#86. It was a weird kind of desperation. We knew frenzied fucking, and we knew covert quickies, but this was something else entirely.
Christina Lauren
#87. Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms.
Camille Paglia
#88. He didn't say it; he had to keep his desperation from bursting through the thin layer of dignity it had been wrapped in throughout the interview. Clark smiled and patted him on the arm.
Imbolo Mbue
#89. To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
Bill Walsh
#90. I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.
Courtney Milan
#91. If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.
Jessi Klein
#92. War means desperation, and desperation is our mother's milk, kid.
Brandon Sanderson
#93. If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.
David Mitchell
#95. It is always an act of desperation, and I keep asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.
David Levithan
#96. I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.
Jack Black
#97. Yelling is a sign of desperation, an indication that you're out of options, with nothing behind your back but volume.
Emma Chase
#99. Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".
Judith McNaught
#100. Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.
Swami Vivekananda
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