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

  William S. Burroughs
  American writer and artist 1914-1997
  - +

   0

See all quotes by William S. Burroughs

Subjects in these quotes:

1. desperation
2. everything
3. believed
4. change
5. behind
6. escape

Similar authors

• Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 384
• Henry David Thoreau
  American writer 282
• Ambrose Bierce
  American writer 232
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 139
• Eric Hoffer
  American writer 130
• Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher 121
• James Baldwin
  American writer 120
• Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil 100

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

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations