Desperation Quotes

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.