He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.
If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.
Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near
Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.
I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.
When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.