Desperation Quotes - Page 2

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

Inspiration in desperation.

I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.

Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

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?

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

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

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.

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.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

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

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

If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

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

The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.

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

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