“There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperatio...” — David Whyte Quote

“There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.”

“We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement.”

“The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.”

“It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.”

“I would still ask the government not to drive the people of India to desperation, or else there is no other course left open to the people except to inaugurate the policy of non-cooperation, though not necessarily the programme of Mr. Gandhi.”

“Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.”