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Desperation Quotes

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.57

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.117, Harper Collins

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

"Fictional character: Don Birnam". "The Lost Weekend", www.imdb.com. October 5, 1945.

When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

James Thurber (1956). “Further fables for our time”

Desperation is the result of globalization.

Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.140, Transaction Publishers

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers