Best 240 quotes in «desperation quotes» category

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and 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's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A desperate soul needs a good and inspiring music

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

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.

A month ago it would have been my dream just to be in his bedroom watching a movie, but now it’s torture because I want so much more. It’s like my entire conscious state has been reduced to this toxic blend of hope and uncertainty. I hate that I have to act cool and almost pretend I don’t like him when in fact I do, because, God forbid, I come across as desperate for attention or a little clingy, which everyone should know are perfectly natural human behaviors, after all. Ugh!