Desperation Quotes

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

Richard Adams

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

Andrew Westphal

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Dan Garton

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

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate

Ashleigh Brilliant

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.

Amy Tan

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Vladimir Lenin

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

William Blake

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

Jim Carrey

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

The feeling of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

Francis Bacon

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot

When one hits the bottom of the Desperation Barrel, there is always someone down there.

Kelli Jae Baeli

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.

Comer Cotrell

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

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate; Very seldom do I start out that way; I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate

Willem de Kooning

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

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

Wilde, Oscar

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

Wilde, Oscar

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

Johan Huizinga

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