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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.

  • 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.

    Jobs   Real   Party  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • 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.

  • I've been traveling a lot, and I'm seeing a lot of desperation everywhere in America. A lot of sad desperation.

  • 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.

    "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. November 26, 2002.
  • Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

    Suicide   Suicidal   Long  
  • 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.

    Ignorance   Feet   Racism  
    "Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American (Pt. 2)". bigthink.com.
  • There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn't have an economic and political game plan.

    Military   Games   Track  
    Source: progressive.org
  • I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.

    Believe   Dark   Men  
  • such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.

    Art   Despair   Littles  
    Ludwig van Beethoven (1957). “Heiligenstädter Testament”
  • Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to a sharpened point and creates moments of true brilliance. And standing there, nose tickled by the dusty hide of the stuffed deer head, such a moment visited Mosca Mye.

  • Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

    Men   Rats   Driving  
    Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.66, Da Capo Press
  • 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.

    Mean   Thinking   People  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

  • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
  • The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.

    Sports   Running   Games  
  • We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 21, 2017
  • Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

  • 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 (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

    Fire   Victory   Wheels  
    Thomas Merton (1997). “Dancing In The Water Of Life Volume 5:1963-1965: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage”, HarperOne
  • I think if you come out to California trying to be an actor, it's pretty hard. There's desperation. A lot of people are desperate, and a lot of people are clueless, including me. It's hard to try to figure it out. I've never told you, but I have head shots that if you saw them... they're so terrible! It's so embarrassing.

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

  • Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

  • The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

    "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com.
  • There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

    "Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945". Book by Oskar Munzel, 1965.
  • Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors our faith when we place it in him alone - with no back-up plan, no other recourse, no other way out. He hears and answers our desperate heart cry, because he loves to show himself strong on our behalf.

    Strong   Heart   Honor  
    Source: www.biblegateway.com
  • 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.

  • There's no deodorant for desperation.

    Jerry Stahl (2008). “I, Fatty”, p.248, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.

    Emotional   Insane   Want  
    Source: logger.believermag.com
  • The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

    Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.195, David C Cook
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