Desperation Quotes
Desperation Quote of the day
We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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.
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 think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.
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.
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.
Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.
Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.
The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.
Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
