quotes about Desperation
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
-- Albert Brooks -
Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
-- Charles Bukowski -
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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When they face desperation... human beings become animals.
-- Dan BrownSource : Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.605, Knopf
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Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.
-- Daniel Handler -
When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.
-- Dean Koontz -
Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
-- Denis Waitley -
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Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!
-- Denise AustinSource : FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Aug 26, 2011
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
-- Douglas Coupland -
Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.
-- George R. R. Martin -
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
-- Harlan Coben -
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I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
-- Harry Shearer -
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
-- James Thurber -
There's no deodorant for desperation.
-- Jerry StahlSource : Jerry Stahl (2008). “I, Fatty”, p.248, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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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 think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
-- M. H. AbramsSource : "An Interview with M. H. Abrams by Sharon Hamilton". People's Education, March 10, 2007.
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If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.
-- Mooji -
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 -
You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.
-- Patricia DunckerSource : Patricia Duncker (2017). “Hallucinating Foucault”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
-- Pauline Kael -
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
-- Peter S. PrescottSource : Peter S. Prescott (1986). “Never in Doubt: Critical Essays on American Books, 1972-1985”
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Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near
-- Philip Yancey -
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
-- R. Scott Bakker -
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
-- Roberto Bolano -
I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.
-- Steig Larsson -
Inspiration in desperation.
-- Stephenie MeyerSource : Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.217, Hachette UK
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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
-- Trevor McDonald -
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
-- Veronica Roth -
So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?
-- Veronica Roth -
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The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that smooth out the edges.
-- Robert Sikoryak -
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