The feeling between two fighters is profound. We go places where normal people don't go. You smell a man's blood, it smells like rust. You get into a clench, you feel his strength, you feel his desperation, he feels yours. You're sharing this.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

Canadians must fight back against global elites preying on the fears and desperation of people to impose their power grab.

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.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed 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.

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.

Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

'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.

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is.

A negative mindset will keep you stuck in a cycle of desperation & fear

Desperation brings out strength.

Loneliness and desperation can push even the best of us off the edge.

I have been driven to desperation more times than I can count. But it is here that I have been driven to the greatest Inspirational that I can contain.

And here's to the blues, the real blues- where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

Prayer is not an act of desperation. Rather, it is an act that acknowledges all other acts as desperate.

We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.

In life, you need either Inspirational or desperation.