Desperation Quotes - Page 13

• There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.

  Zedd

  Powerful, Magic

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• To know what Fascism really is we must first of all know what it is we are fighting, what the Fascist regimes really are and do, who puts up the money and backs Fascism in every country, and who owns the nations under such regimes, and why the natives of all Fascist countries must be driven into harder work, less money, reduced standards of living, poverty and desperation so that the men and corporations who found, subsidize and own Fascism can grow unbelievably rich.

  George Seldes

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

  Randy Harrison

  Character, Feelings, Isolation

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• Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

  Roger Waters

  Hanging On, Way, Quiet

  "Song: 'Time'". 1973.

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• When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.258, Hachette UK

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• Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.

  David Wallace

  Prayer, Believe, Moving

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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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• (The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths they go to to protect him. They, I believe, will spout this racist line if some of their colleagues up here aren't doing it aggressively enough. There is going to be a real desperation.

  Joe Walsh

  Real, Believe, Media

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• In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.

  Richard Matheson

  Heart, People, Veins

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Analysis

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

  Zedd

  Play

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• It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Abortion, Pro Life, Soul

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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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• 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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• 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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• What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

  Junot Diaz

  Opposites, People, Community

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• On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed. Inside, he was in a world of hurt. He saw black flashes before his eyes. He saw himself falling through the air. He knew what he was turning into. He was turning into the worst kind of human on the planet: an old bitter dork. Saw himself at the Game Room, picking through the miniatures for the rest of his life. He didn't want this future but he couldn't see how it could be avoided, couldn't figure his way out of it. Fukú.

  Junot Diaz

  Hurt, Fall, Tired

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.268, Faber & Faber

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• there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Faith, Real, Book

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• I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

  Deb Caletti

  Flying, Trying, Kind

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own lives." He nuzzled the top of her head with his chin. "It's ego and sheer desperation. We have to keep you thinking we're the superior species." "News flash, Jack - no women on the face of earth believes that anymore." He trailed kisses down her cheek. "But men don't know women know that. We still live in our fantasy world, so don't muck it up for us.

  Christine Feehan

  Running, Believe, Kissing

  Christine Feehan (2006). “Conspiracy Game”, p.96, Penguin

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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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• 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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