Desperation Quotes
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Edie Falco
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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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Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.
Nicholas Sparks
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I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.
Tad Williams
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That's what happens when a team plays with some desperation.
Phil Jackson
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I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.
Bill Withers
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People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!
Bob Thaves
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Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies - the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
Laini Taylor
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But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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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
Black Flag
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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
Roger Waters
Pink Floyd
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That is what happens when teams play with desperation and the other team comes out and doesn't play at the same level. We just got beat to the ball too many times and they were active and aggressive. They beat us with the nature of the play.
Phil Jackson
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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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Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
Richard Scott Bakker
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Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
Charlotte Bronte
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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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His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because they were his, like his terrified rage in the lift when they had first met, being wrapped in his arms in the cold well, being dazzled by his wonder at the woods and her home and her. Like being a child, awareness of him the morning chorus that woke her and the lullaby that sent her to sleep, his thoughts always her first and last song.I love you, Kami told him, and cut.
Sarah Rees Brennan
