Desire Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“Horrible world events, difficult choices, illnesses and periodic feelings of abject loneliness are common examples of existential pain.”

— Pete Walker

“People who didn’t have deep feelings never experienced deep joy or deep pain. They lived in a trivial, pale shadow of life where nothing…

— Mark Nolan

“Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate…

— Kate Levinson

“misery, though seemingly ridiculous, indicates life itself has the potential of meaning, and therefore pain itself must also have meaning.”

— Donald Miller

“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? We are not formed for enjoyment; and,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of…

— Lydia Millet

Emotional and psychological pain were to become, perhaps, the most powerful force in molding the course of my life. For some people, pain and…

— Joseph Girzone

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“And someone who has never felt it can never understand what the absence of emotion feels like. It is a hopelessness of incomprehensible, unspeakable…

— Karen Fortunati

“I’ve learned that the worst pain, fear, and torment I’ve ever experienced has only deepened my ability to experience joy. I feel this even…

— Martha Beck

“The reason we don’t want to feel is that feeling exposes the tragedy of our world and the darkness of our hearts.”

— Dan Allender