A Quote by Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.
Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that he may "retire" and enjoy himself as soon as he is too old to do so. This is more than just the system - it is the credo. It is the same thing that prompted Thoreau to say, in 1839: 'The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation.'
People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!
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.
...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers
'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.
One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.
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