320 Quotes About Desperation
- Author Charles Bukowski
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People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.
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- Author Bryant McGill
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Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate.
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- Author Sarah Tregay
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Your arms ache to hold someone -- you move in slow motion from one hug to the nextso you won't jostle the warm feeling off your shouldersbefore the next hug comes your way.Your heart feels hollow -- that emptiness screams like an addiction to be filledeven if it means doing hurtful, selfish thingsto get a fix."I understand,"I tell him. "BecauseI've been lonely, too.
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- Author Bryant McGill
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Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we have lost touch with our beauty within.
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- Author Daniel Kahneman
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Many unfortunate human situations unfold [. . .] where people who face bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. The thought of accepting the large sure loss is too painful, and the hope of complete relief is too enticing, to make the sensible decision that it is time to cut one's losses.
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- Author Courtney Milan
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I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.
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- Author Pawan Mishra
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In troubled times one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.
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