(477 quotes found)
“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
Anthony Robbins
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“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
“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
“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
William Shakespeare
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
“Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures”
Proverb
“Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate”
Ashleigh Brilliant
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