David Whyte Quotes

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..

'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.

When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

I can't lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help.

Marriage is the death of hope.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.