Desire Quote by César Vallejo

“I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt away into…

— Ágota Kristof

“Let us give up the illusion of hope, which betrays; of love, which wearies; of life, which surfeits but never satisfies; and even of…

— Fernando Pessoa

“We ourselves shall be loved for awhile and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the…

— Thornton Wilder

“Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances. Yet all the while I hungered…

— Edger Lee Masters

“I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In…

— Edgar Lee Masters

“My life, my life, my very old one My first badly healed desire, My first crippled love, You had to return. It was necessary…

— Michel Houellebecq

“faithful, resolute, alive, You and the Two Lands that has no enemies; This life is no more than a dream, so seize the day…

— Stephanie Thornton

“Having come so close to losing everything, I am freed now of all fear, hesitation, and timidity, and, once revived, intend to devoutly wander…

— George Saunders

“To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary…

— Thornton Wilder

“All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean. ”

— Jonathon Edwards

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering…

— Bertrand Russell