Desperation Quotes - Page 13

• The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play.

  Zedd

  Play

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• There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.

  Zedd

  Powerful, Magic

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• Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on.

  Cyrus the Great

  Moving, Talking, Leader

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• It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning to cook was part of my journey toward actualization. I would love to tell Oprah this. I would love to tell Oprah this while weeping. But I learned to cook for a much simpler reason: in the abject hope that people would spend time with me if I put good things in their mouth. It is, in other words (like practically everything else I do), a function of my desperation for emotional connection and acclaim.

  Steve Almond

  Emotional, Journey, Self

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• Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Men, Curves

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

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• A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

  Vernon Howard

  Passion, Way, Problem

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

  Jesse Ball

  Book, Pleasure

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed wire surrounded it, spray paint on the ancient walls claimed it as private property, and the moat where my grandfather and his men had grown crops - in desperation as the siege's hunger bit - was completely overgrown with bushes and trees.

  Chris Cleave

  Wall, Men, Tree

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test' - Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview with Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• Obviously we're doing a comedy [Fresh Hell], and our intent is to entertain, but we're also really aware and trying to stay aware of the subtext of what it's like to reach a certain age and be dismissed, basically, from the fraternity you've always wanted to be a part of, and the desperation involved in trying to claw your way back into it.

  Brent Spiner

  Trying, Age, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Book, Tired, Years

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in America] as well. It resonates with this moment and the sort of alienation from the power structure a lot of people feel, as well as a certain amount of desperation, in the hope of disrupting the power structure so they can live better lives. I think in those ways, it's intimately connected to today.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Thinking, America, People

  "Donald Trump May Be on Your Television, But Here’s What America Really Looks Like". Interview with Mark Murrmann, www.motherjones.com. February 25, 2017.

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• It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

  Richard Wright

  Book, Support, Abiding

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• The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Individuality, Needs

  Deepak Chopra (1996). “The Return of Merlin”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Encouragement, Kindness, Fear

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• I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

  Sue Miller

  Thinking, Empathy, Kind

  Sue Miller (2014). “While I Was Gone: rejacketed”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.

  Anne Rice

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1263, Ballantine Books

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• Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

  Janette Rallison

  Running, Heart, Smell

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.

  Libba Bray

  Silence, Wish, Meetings

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• Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Names, Medicine, Chinese

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

  Roberto Bolano

  Moments

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

  R. Scott Bakker

  Mad, Fantasy, Lost

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Warrior Prophet: The Prince of Nothing, Book Two (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.176, The Overlook Press

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• It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Space, Worry, Way

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Past, Men

  "The History of the Siege of Lisbon" by Jose Saramago, (p. 47), 1989.

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• Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders.

  Tove Jansson

  Running, Dog, Grandmother

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• Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.

  Wallace Stegner

  Agreement, Civilization, Names

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