Jim Carrey

“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”

- Jim Carrey, actor and comedian

James Thurber

"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation."

- James Thurber, cartoonist, humourist, author

Henry David Thoreau

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, developmental critic

Henry David Thoreau

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, developmental critic