Desire Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“He looked both proud and guilty of something. As if happiness was a reward and he wasn't sure he'd done enough to deserve it.”

— Rupert Thomson

“Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He’d been born to…

— Richard Russo

“He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of…

— Graham Greene

“...and thus he found his single source of joy in the society of other people: frightening the girls with his penis.”

— Christopher Moore

“Man needs, for his happiness, not merely the enjoyment of this or that, but hope, and enterprise and change.”

— Bertrand Russell

“a lot of happiness lead a person to disappointments.”

— AribaZafar

“Mistakes can be very beautiful. Mistakes lead to surprises. Even joy. And joy makes life worth living.”

— Ryan Winfield

“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach-that it makes no sense. And when that happens the happiness is never spontaneous again.”

— Philip Roth

“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. And when that happens the happiness is never…

— Philip Roth

“The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.”

— Molly Ringwald

“For he had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as…

— Thomas Wolfe

“But, in reality, being unhappy might also teach him something about happiness.”

— François Lelord