Desperation Quotes
My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.
But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.
You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.
I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.
Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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?
We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way
Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.
I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.
There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn't have an economic and political game plan.
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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.
I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.
A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.
My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.
Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.
Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.
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.
Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
