Top 1200 Quiet Desperation Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

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

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.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

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

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

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.

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

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

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we always reported on foreign affairs - we always had this quiet voice. It was so quiet sometimes I had to say 'speak up'. And he gave it in a way which wasn't exactly scintillating. And you know, foreign affairs are interesting. They affect everything that happened to our own way of life, and they are exciting. And so we just diverged.

I'm outgoing. I like being social. But when I think I should be quiet, I am. And I don't think quiet is the right word. Respectful is more accurate. I want to be respectful of people and their space.?

No one who has followed politics for the last decade thinking about August like quiet month for politics. There are no more quiet times or slow periods. None. Which, frankly, makes it a very good time to be a political writer.

I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about Him, but to reach people and to inspire people.

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

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

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

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

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

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

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

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

Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information.

There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I, which is Consciousness. Begin to catch yourself. begin to realize your divine nature. You do this by keeping quiet. The fastest way to realization is to keep quiet.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.

In the craziness of our world, it takes tremendous effort to find a quiet place. It takes time to quiet your mind and your heart before the Lord.

When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.

I never regret or sit back and think that I shouldn't have said something. There are a lot of people who tell me that you shouldn't say this or that or should keep quiet, and I really think that I can either be true to my conscience or can live a fake life by staying quiet.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

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

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

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

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.

No insurrection bred out of desperation can be quelled by strong-arm tactics.

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

Take time to be quiet. This is something that we don't do enough in this busy world of ours. We rush, rush, rush, and we are constantly listening to noise all around us. The human heart was meant for times of quiet, to peer deep within. It is when we do this that our hearts are set free to soar and take flight on the wings of our own dreams! Schedule some quiet "dream time" this week. No other people. No cell phone. No computer. Just you, a pad, a pen, and your thoughts.

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

A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.

Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.