Desperation Quotes - Page 4

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Maturity, Night

  1895 Lord Goring. An Ideal Husband, act 2.

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• I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fun, Interesting, Sound

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.181, Random House

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• Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are fleeing in desperation. They come to the border, and we put them in trucks and send them back to Mexico to die. And here people are scared of illegal immigrants - that's what we're doing. It's pretty shocking.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Atrocities, Fleeing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Agonizing, Bread

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

  Vernon Howard

  Grief, Self, Confusion

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• Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

  David L. Katz

  People, Common Sense, Weight

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• Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.

  Arthur Kleinman

  Writing, Listening, Path

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• I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Ideas, People

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• In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Disappointment, Islamic

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• We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hungers on us, and now we hunger for justice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Sacrifice, Men

  The Plan of Delano, 1965.

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Hope, Expectations, Form

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever.

  Martin Luther

  Hope, Fall, Dark

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• The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.

  Pietro Aretino

  Art, War, Might

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• Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pain, Prayer, Women

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2012). “The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings”, p.80, Moody Publishers

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• You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up. I don't give - and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

  Johnny Cash

  Giving Up, Believe, Don't Give Up

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. November 26, 2002.

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• You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose.
  There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
  Just that something so good just can't function no more.
  When love, love will tear us apart again.

  Ian Curtis

  Sleep, Confusion, Tears

  "So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks".

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• Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

  Colin Farrell

  Names, Survival, Incredibles

  "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross", October 11, 2008.

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• The moth don't care when he sees the flame
  He might get burned, but he's in the game
  And once he's in, he can't go back
  He'll beat his wings till he burns them black
  No, the moth don't care when he sees the flame
  The moth don't care if the flame is real
  'Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal
  And nothing fuels a good flirtation
  Like need and anger and desperation
  No, the moth don't care if the flame is real.

  Aimee Mann

  Real, Games, Wings

  "Song: 'The Moth'". 2002.

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• Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.

  Renata Adler

  Writing, Talking, Next

  Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”

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• 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?

  Veronica Roth

  Tobias, Blind, My Own

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• ...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of insecurity, with dire consequences. Certain pathologies are increasing, with their psychological consequences; fear and desperation grip the hearts of many people, even in the so-called rich countries; the joy of life is diminishing; indecency and violence are on the rise; poverty is becoming more and more evident. People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Struggle, Heart

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• Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

  Henry Rollins

  Ignorance, Feet, Racism

  "Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American (Pt. 2)". bigthink.com.

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• Songs are snapshots of what you’re going through, and mine involve questioning, searching for completion, joy, and truth, and desperation for relief.  I’m satisfied with my progress as a writer and a human being, and I know I’m going to get better at both.  There will be times when I’ll feel like I’m not improving, and I’ll get through that.

  Melissa Ferrick

  Song, Joy, Get Better

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• We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information.

  Tyga

  Inspiration, Information, Looks

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

  Charles Bukowski

  Nerves, Spirit, Belly

  Charles Bukowski (2011). “Post Office”, p.50, Random House

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