Best 240 quotes in «desperation quotes» category

You drive me back down my desperation—that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life.

You'll get, with faith and hope what you think can be yours.

You might even ask, 'Who is this guy to be telling me how to live my life?' And my answer is simple. I’m the guy that is figuring it out just like you. I can’t guarantee that I’m ahead of you in the race - but I do feel it’s my responsibility to help people get into the race, and to stay on track in the race. I know I don’t have it all together. I know that I’m not an expert. I know that I’m not perfect. But I can’t sit by and let men live 'lives of quiet desperation.' (To quote Thoreau) Let’s do this together. Take the flint. Take the steel. Strike. And we will reignite our lives together.

You need to wake up and realize that you deserve more, and there is more waiting for you out there. Stop settling; it only tarnishes and corrodes your soul.

Your arms ache to hold someone -- you move in slow motion from one hug to the next so you won't jostle the warm feeling off your shoulders before the next hug comes your way. Your heart feels hollow -- that emptiness screams like an addiction to be filled even if it means doing hurtful, selfish things to get a fix. "I understand," I tell him. "Because I've been lonely, too.

You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'" P244

You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

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

You told me, if something is not used it is meaningless, and took my temperature, which I had thought to save for a more difficult day. In the mirror, every night, the same face, a bit more threadbare, a dress worn too long. The moon was out in the cold, along with the restless, dissatisfied wind that seemed to change the location of the sycamores. I expected reproaches because I had mentioned the word love, but you only accused me of stealing your pencil, and sadness disappeared with sense. You made a ceremony out of holding your head in your hands because, you said, it could not be contained in itself.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

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.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

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.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

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.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

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.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

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?

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.

Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!

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.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

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.

Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.