Desperation Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Desperation

Desperation Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Desperation quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

With Clinton, of course, the term "world stage" was peculiarly literal: he had a fading vaudevillian's desperation to be loved. — Mark Steyn

I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder. — Bill Withers

Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A — R. Scott Bakker

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say? — Steven Erikson

The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play. - Zedd — Terry Goodkind

Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption. — Bob Carlisle

Dear brother," Number Two replied, "I can eat shit, I just don't like the taste. — Mo Yan

Yelling is a sign of desperation, an indication that you're out of options, with nothing behind your back but volume. — Emma Chase

A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things. — Jeremy Corbyn

Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way — Roger Waters

It's amazing what desperation can do to a person. It can seep into the heart. Turn us into the very monsters we fight." -Vexis — C.M. Hayden

the deepest form of humiliation isn't experienced in the eyes of others, but in the lonely desperation of oneself. — Natalia Sylvester

Sometimes we don't know that it's best to run. Hanging on in desperation seems to be our way. — Amy A. Bartol

There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation. — Zedd

True spirituality is "the place where desperation meets Jesus. — Mark Batterson

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness. — Ron Suskind

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light. — Amy Tan

Then you're mine," she said in desperation. "Then you belong to me."
"With everything I am — Christine Feehan

The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation. — Rick Moody

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

He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation. — Sarah Winter

Desperate people do foolish things, don't be one of them. — Jenni Young

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

President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation. — Jay Leno

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation. — Denis Waitley

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself. — Kate Morton

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies. — Nadine Velazquez

Desperation seeps through the seams of fear. — T.A. Cline

Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools. — David Souter

What I remember most of those times is that poverty creates desperation, and desperation creates violence. — Studs Terkel

They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment. — Louis L'Amour

When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap. — Peter Lynch

I cling to my memories of glorious desperation. — Henry Rollins

My heart's not telling me anything. It's screaming in desperation to find Laurelyn and tell her how much I love her. — Georgia Cates

Blood brothers in desperation
Oath of silence for the voice of a generation — Fall Out Boy

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline. — Bill Hybels

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

Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking. — Joseph Fink

If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world? — Joan Bauer

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. — James Thurber

Love was insanity at its most beautiful - a madness of desperation and desire that made the most improbable choice possible. — A Meredith Walters

I want to feel embarrassed by my desperation but I'm too busy feeling desperate. — Marley Jacobs

Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all. — William Shakespeare

War means desperation, and desperation is our mother's milk, kid. — Brandon Sanderson

This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens. — Danielle Paige

By her desperate actions, she drove others to desperation, and so we came to be deprived of our brightest ally , our purest colors. — Cameron Dokey

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

A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster. — Kohta Hirano

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out? — Helen Fielding

Despair makes victims sometimes victors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Desperation is energized despair, and despair is the abandonment of hope. — Dean Koontz

If silence could break bones, I would shatter right now, into pieces of stomachache and blueprints and desperation. — Hannah Moskowitz

Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum. — Mark Batterson

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. — Harry Shearer

Fear is knocking at your door twenty four seven in desperation to destroy your dreams. — Euginia Herlihy

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation. — Robbie Robertson

There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions. — Shaun Hick

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine. — Simon Van Booy

Was it too much to expect a future? — Alan Gibbons

We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information. — Tyga

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

P244 — Veronica Roth

All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in desperation and despair, a little climb up God's ladder. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again. — Craig Ferguson

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away. — Geoffrey Zakarian

... desperate times required judicious risk-taking. — Eoin Colfer

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

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

It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it. — Nina Conti

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity. — Simon Sinek

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. — Betty Hutton

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. — William S. Burroughs

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts. — Peter S. Beagle

The young doe, Marena, said, In this very hour many of us are going to die. Perhaps I shall be one of them. — Felix Salten

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. — Evan Esar

...There's a difference between desire and desperation. You should never want a guy more than he wants you. — Dream Jordan

Desperation is the result of globalization. — Tariq Ali

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation. — Jhumpa Lahiri

When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do. — Taylor Swift

With an utterly foreign sense of desperation, he did something that he'd never, in all his thirty-three years, thought he would do. He tripped her. — Rhyannon Byrd

Desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers — Harlan Coben

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Henry David Thoreau

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation. — Vernon Howard

If you desired someone, if he comforted you, if you thought he might leech the poison out of your heart, was that love? Or only desperation? — Rosamund Hodge

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates. — Tad Williams

Desperation is the father of invention. — Micheal Lee Nelson

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition. — Charlotte Bronte

Hope is determination, you think. Hope is desperation. Hope is a yearning you can't deny. And hope is just plain old-fashioned insanity. — Hal Duncan

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. — Vita Sackville-West

You will never ever be backed into a corner of desperation as long as you trust and believe that "God's Got It. — Gale C. Adams

The habit of misery had twisted these people, driving them to this paranoia. What had been diligence turned to desperation. — Duong Thu Huong

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation. — Anthony Robbins

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst. — Travis Luedke

During a test, people look up for inspiration, down in desperation, and left and right for information. — Anonymous

education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Supplication comes from a place of intrinsic desperation resulting from a broken and contrite heart. — Robin Bertram

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. — Jim Carrey

But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention. — Laura Marney

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