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Many of us have felt that sense of desperation - of urgency - when we learn that we or someone we love is fighting for their life.

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.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.