Who said inspiration is born of desperation

When one hits the bottom of the Desperation Barrel, there is always someone down there. Kelli Jae Baeli 0 Copy. Sometimes that's all life is One desperate act after another.

Terry Goodkind 0 Copy. There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. Heinz Guderian 0 Copy. Life begins on the other side of despair. Jean-Paul Sartre 0 Copy. When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful. Edward Abbey 0 Copy. Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near. Philip Yancey 0 Copy. Beware of desperate steps; the darkest day, lived till tomorrow, will have passed away.

William Cowper 0 Copy. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. Jim Carrey 0 Copy. Tempt not a desperate man. William Shakespeare 0 Copy. But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention. Laura Marney 0 Copy. But a desperate heart will seduce the mind. Mitch Albom 0 Copy. Desperation makes men fearless. Jocelyn Murray 0 Copy. Like carnivores to carnal pleasures as are we to desperate measures.

Harvey Danger 0 Copy. When they face desperation Dan Brown 0 Copy. Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Disraeli 0 Copy. Despair makes victims sometimes victors. Edward Bulwer-Lytton 0 Copy. A dog in desperation will leap over a wall. Chinese Proverbs 0 Copy. Brilliance is born of Desperation. Jayanth Komarneni 0 Copy. The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation Comer Cotrell 0 Copy.

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish. Suzanne Collins 0 Copy. Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. Alain De Botton 0 Copy. Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. Amy Tan 0 Copy. We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. Anthony Burgess 0 Copy.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation. Barbara Kingsolver 0 Copy. Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace. David Platt 0 Copy. Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation.

Emma Goldman 0 Copy. Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. Evan Esar 0 Copy. Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Franz Kafka 0 Copy. Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart. George R. Martin 0 Copy. Desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers. Harlan Coben 0 Copy. Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Henri Nouwen 0 Copy. Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Henry David Thoreau 0 Copy. It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Henry Graham Greene 0 Copy. 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. Henry Miller 0 Copy. Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. And life is veiled and hidden, even as your greater self is hidden and veiled. Yet when Life speaks, all the winds become words; and when she speaks again, the smiles upon your lips and the tears in your eyes turn also into words.

When she sings, the deaf hear and are held; and when she comes walking, the sightless behold her and are amazed and follow her in wonder and astonishment. Kahlil Gibran. Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father. Keith O'Brien. The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine,' has become a bit lighter.

And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce. Joel Robuchon. We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

My strength is my enthusiasm. Placido Domingo. In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil. But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. Erwin Rommel.

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Blaise Pascal. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. Never let your dreams go away. The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption --pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.

Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had, what, a year run? The vocabulary of endearment, complaint, and abuse, provides, I think, almost the only specimens of words that are purely emotional, words from which all imaginative or conceptual content has vanished, so that they have no function at all but to express or stimulate emotion, or both.

And an examination of them soon convinces us that in them we see language at its least linguistic. We have come to the frontier between language and inarticulate vocal sounds. And at that frontier we find a two-way traffic going on. All rights reserved. Quote by Comer Cotrell The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation. Topics: inspirational By Comer Cotrell. Liked the quote? Share it with your friends. Random Quotations.

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