Desperate Situation Quotes
It was times like these when a man in a desperate situation must take whatever madness is offered to escape the darker madness in which he finds himself trapped.
I would still ask the government not to drive the people of India to desperation, or else there is no other course left open to the people except to inaugurate the policy of non-cooperation, though not necessarily the programme of Mr. Gandhi.
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
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.
Aldrich Ames
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
Laura Dern
Confidence definitely did not get me here! More of, like, desperation.
Jesmyn Ward
I found meditation. It was more out of pure desperation: I just started to wake up at 5 and sit for one hour, and suddenly, day after day, piece by piece, I could really feel I was coming back into me.
Vicky Krieps
I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.
Brett Gelman
In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.
Andy Andrews
Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.
Obert Skye
There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.
Dave Navarro
The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.
Suzanne Collins
Desperate affairs require desperate measures. — Horatio Nelson
That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish. — Suzanne Collins
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. — William S. Burroughs
To overcome a desperate situation, make a complete turn in one sudden burst. — Japanese Proverbs
Take a bad or desperate situation and turn it into a successful one. — Japanese Proverbs
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus. — Billy Graham
Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life. — RZA
The more you desperately want to be rich, the more poor and unworthy you feel, regardless of how much money you actually make. — Mark Manson
Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.
Obert Skye
At times I was desperate and could find no solace anywhere. Nothing seemed to work, and the weight of being trapped in my own body made it difficult to lift even a hand off the sheets.
Lucy Grealy
The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
Jodi Picoult
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
Veronica Roth
When things are desperate, there is no need to pretend that everything is beautiful.
Tenzin Gyatso
Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.
Terry Goodkind
When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
Edward Abbey
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
Henry Graham Greene