(486 quotes found)
“What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once”
Virginia Woolf
“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
“When things are desperate, there is no need to pretend that everything is beautiful.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“We can't forget how desperately they need our help and how important they are.”
Wendie Malick
“Desperate Housewives.”
Sex and the City
“I did not run for this job just to warm the seat. I desperately want to make a difference.”
Bill Clinton
“Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.”
Thomas Merton
“I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.”
Vivian Stanshall
““Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn’t worry.””
Carlos Castaneda
“Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.”
James Thurber
