Desperation Quotes - Page 10

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  Damian Marley

  Encouragement, Father, Voice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Patricia Duncker

  Writing, Firsts, Novel

  Patricia Duncker (2017). “Hallucinating Foucault”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.

  John Updike

  Religious, Giving Up, Philosophical

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• Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces quiet desperation. High well-being is a life that has depth and quality. Risks, losses, problems, and tragedy add pain to a life. That pain becomes a teacher. We learn; the pain gives us no choice.

  Jennifer James

  Teacher, Pain, Loss

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Crush, Travel, Boredom

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

  Robbie Robertson

  Prayer, Reality, Generations

  Song: American Roulette, Album: Robbie Robertson, 1987

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• Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Life, Friday, Lying

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• Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Struggle, Independent, Bird

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

  Marianne Williamson

  Levels, Knees, Scared

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• If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

  Bill Hybels

  Prayer, Discipline, I've Learned

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

  Philip Yancey

  Heaven, Kingdoms, Draws

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

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• If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

  William Blake

  Spiritual, Confusion, Sorrow

  William Blake (1926). “Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel”

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• We don't attack any veteran, at all, ever, for their service record. We thank them. And the fact that somebody wanted to do that for political gain, shows the desperation of which some people unfortunately in the Republican Party want to keep and seize power.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Party, People

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• His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because they were his, like his terrified rage in the lift when they had first met, being wrapped in his arms in the cold well, being dazzled by his wonder at the woods and her home and her. Like being a child, awareness of him the morning chorus that woke her and the lullaby that sent her to sleep, his thoughts always her first and last song.I love you, Kami told him, and cut.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Love, Song, Morning

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

  Peter S. Prescott

  Book, Today, Mass

  Peter S. Prescott (1986). “Never in Doubt: Critical Essays on American Books, 1972-1985”

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• 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.

  Robert Sikoryak

  Character, Work Out, Adaptation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Richard Lloyd

  Guitar, Style, Solo

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• Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Darkness, Humming

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• If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

  Alex Katz

  Wise, Artist, Style

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• Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.

  John Hodgman

  Jobs, Lying, Interesting

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• People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

  Bob Thaves

  Live Life, People, Goes On

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• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Kings, Dark

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• I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.

  Bill Withers

  Feels, Know How, Knows

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• Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Rats, Driving

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.66, Da Capo Press

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• Roger Waters isn't a "great" singer but he's always able to communicate this intense desperation. At times he's not even singing, but shouting. There's no melody and his shouting isn't even in key with the song.

  John Congleton

  Song, Water, Singing

  Source: therumpus.net

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