Desperation Quotes

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.

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

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.

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

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

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.

Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

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

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

When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

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.

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.

He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

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

There's no deodorant for desperation.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.

The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.

I've been traveling a lot, and I'm seeing a lot of desperation everywhere in America. A lot of sad desperation.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

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.

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.

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.

Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

Inspiration in desperation.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

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.

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

For when last need to desperation driveth, Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth. [It., Che spesso avvien che ne' maggior perigli Son piu audaci gli ottimi consigli.]

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?

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.