Desperation Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.

  Richard Eyre

  Live Life, Thinking, People

  "Richard Eyre: 'I don't feel directing has to be a young man's game'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.

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• Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Struggle, Independent, Bird

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Pain, Sleep, Son

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• You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

  Patricia Duncker

  Writing, Firsts, Novel

  Patricia Duncker (2017). “Hallucinating Foucault”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.

  James A. Murphy III

  Determination, Frustration, Achievement

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• Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.

  John Updike

  Religious, Giving Up, Philosophical

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• Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces quiet desperation. High well-being is a life that has depth and quality. Risks, losses, problems, and tragedy add pain to a life. That pain becomes a teacher. We learn; the pain gives us no choice.

  Jennifer James

  Teacher, Pain, Loss

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Crush, Travel, Boredom

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.18, Macmillan

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• As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea of world religions that actually condemn the human race by exalting our supposed ability to get to God. On the other hand, when you and I realize that we are morally evil, dead in sin and deserving of God's wrath with no way out on our own, we begin to discover our desperation for Christ.

  David Platt

  Wrath, Race, Hands

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• Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

  Robbie Robertson

  Prayer, Reality, Generations

  Song: American Roulette, Album: Robbie Robertson, 1987

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• Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Latin, Rain, Land

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• Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. When their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, their spirits came toward me, into my arms, and we climbed out of those shower facilities, onto the roof and up, into eternity's certain breadth. They just kept feeding me. Minute after minute. Shower after shower.

  Markus Zusak

  Summer, Book, Doors

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• I'd love to be a director-for-hire and get a nice paycheck and captain one of those big ships, but I think studios mistakenly think I want to write what I direct - which I don't. I write out of desperation, because I never get a script I like, other than "Nebraska." It's a matter of: What's the screenplay? Is it intelligent? Is it human? I don't care what genre, what scale. I'm here for the movies.

  Alexander Payne

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

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• I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of our world. At this point, the more people I reach, the more I accomplish. ... I miss Gombe and my wonderful years in the forest But if I were to go back to that, I wouldn't feel I was doing what I should be doing.

  Jane Goodall

  Science, Our World, Years

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• Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

  Simon Sinek

  Opportunity, Remaining Calm, Way

  Twitter post from Mar 05, 2010

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• Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Religious, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1902, Manonmani Publishers

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• If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

  Bill Hybels

  Prayer, Discipline, I've Learned

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• A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

  Marianne Williamson

  Levels, Knees, Scared

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• Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

  Philip Yancey

  Heaven, Kingdoms, Draws

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.117, Harper Collins

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