The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
Robert Crumb
What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?
Robert Burton
In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."
Grace Hopper
Despotic government supports itself by abject civilization, in which debasement of the human mind, and wretchedness in the mass of the people, are the chief criterions. Such governments consider man merely as an animal; that the exercise of intellectual faculty is not his privilege; that he has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them; and they politically depend more upon breaking the spirit of the people by poverty, than they fear enraging it by desperation.
Thomas Paine
Thoreau, Henry David
Thornbury, George Walter
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