Desire Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.”

— Sreesha Divakaran

“He had reached the point where all he wanted on earth was to be alone.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“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

“He felt empty and lost like he didn't belong anywhere.”

— James Dashner

“gives him a purpose too. For the first time in his life, he feels like he belongs somewhere.”

— Denise Grover Swank

“He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The…

— Lois Lowry

“In another time, another place, I wonder who we would have been to each other.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“He was finding it hard at the moment to decide whether he wanted to be with people or not.”

— J.K. Rowling

“He did not confuse what he longed for with his gratitude for what he had. Extreme desires have their own sanctuary.”

— Tove Jansson

“[S]he felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez