Top Desperation Quotes
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Doug Coupland
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Jim Carrey
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Harry Nilsson
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Douglas Horton
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.
Stefan Zweig
Jean Baudrillard 
Henry Miller 
Robert Crumb 
Willem de Kooning 
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Amy Tan 
James Stewart 
Griffin Dunne 
Thomas Merton All Desperation Quotes
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Jim Carrey 
63% of people like this quote
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Harry Nilsson
61% of people like this quote
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Douglas Horton
60% of people like this quote
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.
Stefan Zweig
57% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
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.
Jim Carrey
56% of people like this quote
Popular Desperation Authors
Henry David ThoreauBenjamin DisraeliDoug CouplandHenry MillerJim CarreyJames ThurberTony RobbinsDouglas HortonWilliam S. BurroughsAldrich AmesThomas MertonAmy TanCharles SpurgeonJean BaudrillardLaura Dern
Johan HuizingaAnthony BurgessGriffin DunneDesmond TutuHarry ShearerBob SagetUma ThurmanStefan ZweigRuth BenedictLee ChildJames StewartEdie FalcoRobert CrumbVita Sackville-WestWillem de Kooning
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