Top Desperation Quotes
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Doug Coupland
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
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Jim Carrey
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Douglas Horton
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
Henry Miller
Henry David Thoreau 
James Thurber 
Harry Nilsson 
Stefan Zweig 
Benjamin Disraeli 
Anthony Burgess 
Billy Ray Cyrus 
Bob Saget 
Lee Child 
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The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
Billy Ray Cyrus 
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My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
Griffin Dunne
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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
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Desmond Tutu
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
Jean Baudrillard
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My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
Willem de Kooning
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Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.
Bob Saget
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Henry David ThoreauBenjamin DisraeliDoug CouplandHenry MillerJim CarreyJames ThurberTony RobbinsDouglas HortonWilliam S. BurroughsAldrich AmesThomas MertonAmy TanCharles SpurgeonJean BaudrillardLaura Dern
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