Top 37 Quotes About Quiet Desperation
#2. There is such a quiet desperation and chronic sense of dullness to Helena, Montana, which makes it the most socially grotesque and culturally bitter of any of the capital cities.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#3. Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
Barbara Kingsolver
#4. 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 in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.
Frederick Lenz
#5. Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way
Roger Waters
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!
Bob Thaves
#11. To grab at my feet, but fearing they will upset my balance and knock me off. They beg now, in quiet desperation, but I have turned my
Anonymous
#12. The mass of man lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation, is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.
Deepak Chopra
#14. There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
David Whyte
#15. 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
#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. On the surface, everyday life has become much more comfortable than ever before. Yet people still lead lives of quiet desperation. The source of this desperation is repression, a sense that you cannot be what you want to be, cannot feel what you want to feel, cannot do what you want to do.
Deepak Chopra
#18. 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 and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Harry Nilsson
#19. 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
#20. Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.
James Patrick McDonald
#22. I'd sooner believe in a ghost story than believe in love."
"That doesn't matter," I told her. "Love still believes in you.
Natalie Lloyd
#23. Though logic-choppers rule the town,
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a pure joy ...
William Butler Yeats
#24. Everyone was trying to forget something, but they could never seem to find the way to do it. All they ever seemed to do was make it worse. Such quiet madness, the masses led.
Chris Galford
#25. Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
E.B. White
#26. 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
#27. She stood before him naked as her name day, and he was as hard as the rock around them.
George R R Martin
#28. She looks like a china doll," observed Grandfather as we departed. "I will break just as easily," I muttered.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#30. But why run? Run where? What's the point?
Seems silly, running.
May as well stand here.
And wait.
The world seems slow.
Beth Revis
#32. I stalked over to the car and climbed in, slamming the door behind me.
"Hey." He frowned from outside the car. "Don't take your anger out on Dolly."
"You named your car Dolly?"
"What's wrong with that?"
I rolled my eyes.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#33. He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents.
Phaedra Patrick
#35. We need each other yet, we bleed each other of the very life we are all drowning in with one another...
The1Essence
#36. Okayyyyy," Isabelle said in a low voice, "When did Brother Zachariah get hot?
Cassandra Clare
#37. Dizzy love turned a star lily pink,
And hung above our lids too flushed to blink,
But icy blue froze the fairytale cold,
Though I treasured you and you sparkled with someone to hold.
Owl City
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