Desperation Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.

  Bob Carlisle

  Work Out, Adoption, Abortion

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• It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it was one game, a lot can happen, they're a good team, and unfortunately we didn't win. We had some bad bounces, and in one game those make a big difference, and unfortunately it didn't go our way. But if we play hard like that, we play desperate like that and control the puck the way we did down low, I like our chances against any team.

  Sidney Crosby

  Team, Hockey, Winning

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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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• Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

  Veronica Roth

  Surprising, Persons, Surprising Things

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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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• 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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• I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

  Steig Larsson

  Believe, Hatred, Persons

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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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human characteristic, no? I'm more pulled to the human drama of shamans - their experience in society and identity struggles - than their transcendental power. Their drastic lives enable them to empathize with others and provide solace.

  Hyon Gyon

  Drama, Struggle, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• I think there is a lot of crime caused by desperation, and it doesn't mean that people commit crime because they're poor, but certainly a lot of people who are poor commit crime and they might not if they weren't poor. You understand the difference there? That's not news, but it comes up when I hear people say poverty doesn't affect crime - that crime is still going down in America even though the economy is bad.

  Peter Moskos

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

  Ray Milland

  Men, Quiet, I Can

  "Fictional character: Don Birnam". "The Lost Weekend", www.imdb.com. October 5, 1945.

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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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• 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 think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.

  Dave McClure

  Thinking, Levels, Want

  "E1000000: F-bomb Friday with 500 Startups’ Dave McClure". Interview with Jason Calacanis, thisweekinstartups.com. November 16, 2013.

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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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• 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 always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  Harlan Coben

  Jobs, Real, Inspiration

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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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