What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures
Proverb
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Doug Coupland
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King Jr
Tempt not a desperate man.
William Shakespeare
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.
I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate
Ashleigh Brilliant
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
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.
Hugo, Victor
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.
Carrie P. Meek
I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desparation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
Francis Bacon(painter)
What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?
Robert Burton