Desire Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Finally, he came to the point in life when he started believing whatever it was that he was missing must have not been of…

— Stevan V. Nikolic

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“But he could not tell what that significance was. It was like a message which it was very important for him to receive, but…

— William Somerset Maugham

“But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality of…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“He believed in nothing. Which is why his departures and his pursuit of the most intense feelings and acts were so radical, so deep…

— Dionne Brand

“...(he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our…

— Primo Levi

“An anxiety with no object or purpose in the present, and in the future nothing but endless sacrifice, by means of which he would…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He could even be grateful in a sense that he had no particular area of interest: in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific…

— Richard Yates