We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.
As an actor, it's all about whether you can sell the emotion on your face. . . that desperation, the panic and rage that comes with combat. The emotion of combat is important to me. I mean, you feel almost sick if you see a real fight where someone is getting badly beaten up. You can get emotionally involved in combat that has nothing to do with you in real-life, let alone if you are actually in it. . . or it's someone you know, and so you should have those same feelings on film.
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.
It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study. '
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.
Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near
I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.
You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy. . . that makes you unkind.