Top 402 Desperation Quotes & Sayings

Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

There's no deodorant for desperation.

Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on 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.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

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.

Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

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

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Desperation is the result of globalization.

The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.

I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.

Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty.... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

Desperation sometimes drives innovation.

There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play.

When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

Confidence definitely did not get me here! More of, like, desperation.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

My desperation to be on the stage and perform was like a vocation, a religious calling.

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

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

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

We have to approach every game with a level of desperation and we can't look at the series numbers.

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

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

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

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or 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.

Inspiration in desperation.

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

I learned the slider out of desperation.

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.