12 Quotes on Desperation
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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.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.
Author:
James Stewart
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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.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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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.
Author:
Henry Miller
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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
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Thomas Merton
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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.
Author:
Willem Kooning
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Author:
Edie Falco
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Author:
Doug Coupland
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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.
Author:
Jim Carrey
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I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
Author:
Jim Carrey
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I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
Author:
Ruth Benedict
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You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.
Author:
Aldrich Ames
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