Quotes about Desperation

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education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It lite — Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Diseases desperate grown,By desperate appliance are relieved,Or not at all. — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack. — Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
... desperate times required judicious risk-taking. — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to b — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. An — Craig D. Lounsbrough
He felt himself now, as he had often fancied other people, adrift on the stream, and far removed from control of it, a m — Virginia Woolf
You told me, if something is not used it is meaningless, and took my temperature, which I had thought to save for a more — Rosmarie Waldrop
There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own imprudence, by the — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens. — Danielle Paige, No Place Like Oz
The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if — Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, — Steven Erikson, The Crippled God
The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst. — Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Paris
It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it. — Nina Conti
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. — Anthony Burgess
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David Thoreau