Desire Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

“The earthly desires men cherish are shadows. There is no true happiness in fulfilling them. Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without…

— Thomas Merton

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of…

— Ayn Rand

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“What should one discover from all the miseries? He should discover eternal happiness. One has enjoyed this (worldly) happiness a lot. He gets satisfaction…

— Dada Bhagwan

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that…

— Horace Walpole

“All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.”

— CLAMP

“True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of…

— George Eliot

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in…

— Blaise Pascal

“The observation of the numerous misfortunes that attend all conditions forbids us to grow insolent upon our present enjoyments, or to admire a man's…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires”

— Paulo Coelho

“He valued these experiences of joy more than anything else he had known, and he desired, as all who have experienced them desire, to…

— George Sayer