Desperation Quotes
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Desperation Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
True spirituality is "the place where desperation meets Jesus.
— Mark Batterson
Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.
— Ron Suskind
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
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
— Douglas Horton
Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
— Denis Waitley
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
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
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
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
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
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
Was it too much to expect a future?
— Alan Gibbons
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
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
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
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
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
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
