Melancholy Quote by Katarina von Bredow

“ Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills but he…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Any man who has known a love bringing him such happiness--if even for a short time--that its loss steals his very will to live,…

— Jennifer Horsman

“A man is said to be [illumined] if his will has become firm, if his mind is not disturbed by misery, if he does…

— Swami Vivekananda

“But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Man will do MANY things to get himself loved. Man will do ALL things to get himself envied.”

— Mark Twain

“Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one will not allow himself…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

“In wanting, a man knows himself better than in having, since, in the absence of temporal things, man is better prepared for the reception…

— ascribed to Johannes Tauler

“Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.”

— Christopher Ryan

“To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose…

— Stephen Richards

“Weil die Wahrheit dessen, was man redet, das ist, was man tut, kann man das Reden auch lassen.”

— Bernhard Schlink

“something I will carry with me forever.  And the next man who loves me– the next man I decide to love– will have to…

— Lori L. Otto