Top Desperation Quotes
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Doug Coupland
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Jim Carrey
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.
Harry Nilsson
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Douglas Horton
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
Stefan Zweig
Johan Huizinga 
Ruth Benedict 
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Robert Crumb 
Laura Dern 
Amy Tan 
Jim Carrey 
Edie Falco 
Vita Sackville-West 
Henry Miller 
William S. Burroughs All Desperation Quotes
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
Ruth Benedict 
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So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
Lee Child
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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
Vita Sackville-West
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If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles Spurgeon
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
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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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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
Thomas Merton
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Popular Desperation Authors
Henry David ThoreauBenjamin DisraeliDoug CouplandHenry MillerJim CarreyJames ThurberTony RobbinsDouglas HortonWilliam S. BurroughsAldrich AmesThomas MertonAmy TanCharles SpurgeonJean BaudrillardLaura Dern
Johan HuizingaAnthony BurgessGriffin DunneDesmond TutuHarry ShearerBob SagetUma ThurmanStefan ZweigRuth BenedictLee ChildJames StewartEdie FalcoRobert CrumbVita Sackville-WestWillem de Kooning
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