84 Desperation Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Henry Rollins

Ignorance Racism Desperation Will Cruelty Society Weakness Brutality Foot Nailed Ground Chained Keep Floor Things Brings

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. Martha Beck

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Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. Robert Crumb

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

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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. Benazir Bhutto

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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs

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

Desperation Men Lead Mass Quiet Confirmed Lives Resignation

In life you need either inspiration or desperation. Tony Robbins

Life You Desperation Inspiration Either Need

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. Amy Tan

Kindness Desperation Universe Inspiration Arises Perhaps Knows Where Who Muses

I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life. Brett Gelman

Life Time Loneliness Desperation My Life Long Personal Life Definitely Something Had Feel Felt Real Truly Personal Intense Where Meant

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation. Edi Rama

Politics Game Desperation Passion Politicians Cynical Has-Been Pushed Come Blindness Making Been Gradually Sitting Stadium Which While Public Room Aside Team Team Game Resemble Seats Played

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

Life Faith Good News Freedom Suffering Honesty Desperation Good News My Life Ourselves Purpose End Place Which Us Certainly Served Brings

In my own view, Hamas's frustration derives from a lack of legitimization by Israel and by much of the world. It is this frustration that leads them to such destructive desperation. That's why we need to grant them status as a legitimate enemy - before we talk about an agreement or, alternatively, about a frontal war. A. B. Yehoshua

War Enemy Frustration World Desperation Before Own Destructive Status About My Own Leads Talk Israel Hamas Lack Legitimate Them Much View Grant Derives Agreement Why Need

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

Life Desperation Fact Countries Overcrowded Poor Many

Economic desperation often drives wildlife destruction like poaching or illegal logging. But trade can help create powerful financial incentives for communities to preserve the biodiversity around them. Arancha Gonzalez

Desperation Financial Destruction Wildlife Economic Drives Powerful Like Around Trade Often Them Create Communities Incentives Help Illegal Biodiversity Preserve

My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better. Damian Marley

Desperation sometimes drives innovation. Dara Khosrowshahi

Innovation Desperation Sometimes Drives

Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that. Darren Boyd

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

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