Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers."
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Desperate
179 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Thomas Frank
Author
"For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all."
Mooji
Spiritual Teacher
"If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover."
Richard Adams
Author
"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly."
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"In desperate position, you must fight."
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"One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes."
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"I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now."
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"When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly."
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"To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism."
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"I'm desperate to start a career in music."
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"There's this huge number of desperate people."
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"Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage."
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"All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage."
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"This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings."
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"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate."
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"Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding."
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"If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction."
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"She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be."
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"I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become."
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"Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts."
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"The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it"
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"In this desperate way, I started many a comedy."
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"A LeBron James team is never desperate."
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"For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live."
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