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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.

Comer Cotrell

Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn‚Äôt worry.

Carlos Castaneda

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius

Bejamin Disraeli

In life you need either inspiration or desperation

Anthony J. Robbins

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Doug Coupland

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall

Chinese Proverbs

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

Burroughs, William S.

Brilliance is born of Desperation.

Jayanth Komarneni

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Disraeli, Benjamin

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Tony Robbins

Carlos Castaneda

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

Douglas Horton

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them

Henry David Thoreau

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation

Thomas Merton

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Jim Carrey

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Vita Sackville-West

It's an idea that was born out of desperation.

Andrew Westphal

This is not desperation. It's just aggressive competition.

Dan Garton

People lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation

James Thurber

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Robert Crumb

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.

Henry Miller