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.

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

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.

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.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

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

Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

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 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.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

People need motivation to do anything. 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.