Best 240 quotes in «desperation quotes» category

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.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

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

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

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

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

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

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

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

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 I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

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.

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

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

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.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

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.

A desperate soul needs a good and inspiring music

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.

A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.

A funny thing happens when you have nothing left to live for. Your existence loses all its sharp edges. There are no more steep drops, no hills to climb. Colors blur and muddle together until your surroundings are a bunch of meaningless shapes and figures painted in the same shade of gray. There's nothing that could possibly surprise you or resurrect those old sensations of joy or fear. No humans could be as unfeeling, as numb, as you are. And then, just when you're getting lulled into the monotonous routine, something snaps. No more.

A man in the trading center was caught trying to sell his two young daughters. The buyer had informed the police. People were becoming desperate.

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.

Artemis let her head fall back, her eyes closed, her lips suddenly trembling. Apollo dying. “Please. Please, Maximus. I’ll refrain from provoking you anymore. I’ll stay in the shadows with my stockings and shoes on and never swim in your pond again, never disturb you again, only please do this one thing, I beg you. Save my brother.

Any nation that teaches and makes it's people look for miracles is making it's people shallow.

As a species we're doomed by hope, then? You could call it hope. That, or desperation. But we're doomed without hope, as well, said Jimmy. Only as individuals, said Crake cheerfully.

A woman's voice answered, "Hello?" Walter cried back at her, "Hello, oh Lord, hello!" "This is a recording," recited the woman's voice. "Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message on the wire spool so she may call you when she returns? Hello? This is a recording. Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message -" He hung up. He sat with his mouth twitching. On second thought he redialed that number. "When Miss Helen Arasumian comes home," he said, "tell her to go to hell.

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.

At 6:15 she was standing on her front porch watering gardenias and watching another line of thunderstorms split and go around her. The same thing happened almost every day. Some days they came so close all she could smell was the rain. The wind whipped up dust from the fields until it drove like buckshot into the shuddering mesquites, and Clara Nell started to pray. 'Jesus,' she whispered. 'Jesus, Jesus....' But the only thing that came out of the sky was her topsoil. Every day the wind took a little more, and it hadn't rained in almost a year.