Desperation Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

  Albert Brooks

  Insecurity, World, Attractive

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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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• As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not necessarily correct. But however overly dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality.

  Billy Corgan

  Reality, Years, Differences

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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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• ...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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• Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

  Shaun McNiff

  Creativity, Frustration, Expression

  Shaun McNiff (1998). “Trust the Process”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• When I was in High School I fell for pretty much any girl I ever met. But I was so desperate that I couldn't get any of them because they sensed my desperation! After many, many years, I learned to relax and just be myself.

  Jack Black

  Girl, School, Years

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.

  Tom Hardy

  Drama, Lying, Angel

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You can become an alcoholic working in an office in Los Angeles. It's very easy to say because I do this shameful job I take drugs or drink, but the real reason prostitutes take drugs and drink is because prostitution is a party area. It's not about desperation, it's the surroundings.

  Michael Glawogger

  Jobs, Real, Party

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

  Erica Jong

  Fall, Sleep, Wish

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• Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Revenge, Ignorance, Hands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything.

  Dylan Moran

  Pain, People, Laughing

  "Dylan Moran Makes Sentences of Things". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 13, 2013.

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• How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

  Laini Taylor

  Instinct, Possibility, Disguise

  Laini Taylor (2014). “Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.162, Hachette UK

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• I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.

  Osamu Dazai

  Loneliness, Hard Work, Men

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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• I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.

  Romola Garai

  Real, Recovery, Sadness

  "Lads' mags: I've been part of the problem - let me be part of the solution". Interview with Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2013.

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• Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.

  Walter Kasper

  Suicide, Islam, Nihilism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

  Rose Macaulay

  Wall, Challenges, Might

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• You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

  Susan Sontag

  Book, Writing, Levels

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