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
James Thurber 
Jim Carrey 
Vita Sackville-West 
Thomas Merton 
William S. Burroughs 
Desmond Tutu 
Charles Spurgeon 
Henry David Thoreau 
Laura Dern 
Robert Crumb All Desperation Quotes
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
Carrie P. Meek 
44% of people like this quote
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Anthony Burgess
42% of people like this quote
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
Johan Huizinga
42% of people like this quote
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
41% of people like this quote
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Harry Shearer
39% of people like this quote
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Edie Falco
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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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