Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
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.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
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.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
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