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"When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face."

Burn, Robert on faces    Share


"What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on resignation    Share

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"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."

Burgess, Anthony on money
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."

Mcdonald, Trevor on age and aging    Share

"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on marriage    Share

"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."

Kooning, Willem De on desperation    Share

"Desperate maladies require desperate remedies."

Proverb, French on medicine    Share

"My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised."

Jackson, Jesse on politics    Share

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