Absence Quote by Anne Carson

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

— Albert Einstein

“Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation,”

— Albert Einstein

All human activity is prompted by desire.

— Anonymous

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in…

— Albert Einstein

“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures…

— Gil Bailie

“We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires”

— Paulo Coelho

The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

— Swami Prabhavananda

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.

— Deepak Chopra

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

— Lionel Shriver

Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds…

— Wendy Farley

“The desire for sudden change and the thought of their realization by force often appears among men like a disease and gains ground mainly…

— Ivo Andrić

Desire is boundless, and boundlessness frightens us.

— Martha Roth