Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
Most men are fragile.
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.