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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• There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

  Harlan Coben

  Inspiration, Three, Persons

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• I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

  Winston Churchill

  Depression, Water, Bipolar

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• Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

  Zadie Smith

  Empathy, Stronger, Weakness

  "This Week in Fiction: Zadie Smith" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. February 3, 2013.

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

  Vernon Howard

  Grief, Self, Confusion

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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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• 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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• He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

  James Patterson

  Hands, Giving, Insecurity

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• ...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

  Harlan Coben

  Giving, Alternatives, Answers

  Harlan Coben (2010). “Caught”, p.283, Penguin

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• He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.

  Matthew Quick

  Daughter, Heart, Thinking

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Monsters, Definitions

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Thinking, Self, Hands

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.42, Penguin

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• When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

  Dan Brown

  Animal, Faces, Humans

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.605, Knopf

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• On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  Banksy

  Dirty, Civilization, Role Models

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• I take a deep breath. I'm not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but know that I've acknowledge it, it's impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. It writhes in my stomach and throat. I need to leave. I need the truth.

  Veronica Roth

  Sleep, Long, Needs

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent, Book 3)”, p.35, HarperCollins UK

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• Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

  Veronica Roth

  Surprising, Persons, Surprising Things

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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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