Desperate Quotes

• writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, People

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• The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Holes, Bigger

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

  Karen Russell

  Swim, Ponies, Superhuman

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• When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way - a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow the other world opens up. The more you are in suffering and difficulties and are 'desperate' for God, the more He is going to come to your aid, reveal Who He is and show you the way out.

  Seraphim Rose

  Simple, Other Worlds, Suffering

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• For pale and trembling anger rushes in
  With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare,
  Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas,
  Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

  John Armstrong

  Anger, Eye, Sea

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.63

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• The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

  Eve Ensler

  Economic Inequality, Neoliberalism, Devastation

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Dedication, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1951). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, New York : Harper

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• God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Answers

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• There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

  Heinz Guderian

  Desperate Situations, People, Historical

  "Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945". Book by Oskar Munzel, 1965.

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• A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

  Richard Adams

  Being True, Folly, Stills

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.94, Oneworld Publications

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• I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

  Nicole Kidman

  Positive, Break Up, Heartbroken

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 25, 2016

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• People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

  George Carlin

  Bullying, Philosophy, Thinking

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

  Horatio Nelson

  Desperate Measures, Affair, Horatio

  "The Book of Military Quotations". Book by Peter G. Tsouras (p. 54), 1992.

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• A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Leadership, Hope, Giving

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• It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Business

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.

  Nicole Kidman

  Break Up, Breakup, Being Positive

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jul 14, 2014

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• 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.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Creating, Interesting

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• I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Thinking, Being Different, Sake

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• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

  Edmund Wilson

  Life, Inspire, Style

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• The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

  Frank Auerbach

  Artist, Desperate Situations, Unity

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• It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, America, American Character

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I don't want to say, 'This is where I'm going to be in five years and I'm going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.

  Brooke Burke

  Stars, Years, Dying

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• I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

  Howard Stern

  Successful, Thinking, Littles

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• When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

  Ivo Andric

  Worthless

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• I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

  Tennessee Williams

  Strong, Character, Hysteria

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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