Desire Quote by Jonathan Swift

“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going…

— Blaise Pascal

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

— Anonymous

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

— Chris Cleave

If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they…

— Paul Brunton

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

— Jean Rostand

“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if…

— Carl Gustav Jung

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they…

— Epictetus

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

— Blaise Pascal

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang…

— Blaise Pascal

What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.

— Nilakanta Sri Ram

“The perfect happiness of men on the earth (if it ever comes) will not be a flat and solid thing, like the satisfaction of…

— G.K. Chesterton

The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

— Swami Prabhavananda