Desire Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt that the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires; that which…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He [Vronsky] himself felt that, except that crazy fellow married to Kitty Shcherbatsky, who, quite irrelevantly had with rabid virulence told him a lot…

— Leo Tolstoy

“On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on…

— Jasper Fforde

“He looked at people as if they were things. A nervous young man across from him...came to hate him for that look. The young…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at her insides,…

— Michael Monroe

“I loved it, I loved the feeling, it was my favorite feeling, but it never led to anything good, and the day after or…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and that the memory weighed on her…

— Colum McCann

“After years of pining over something she could never have, she would choose to embrace the cold comfort of reality instead. No more daydreams…

— Julie Lessman

“Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“He released a long, disgusted breath. Life wasn’t fair. It was something he’d learned at the back of his father’s fist in early childhood.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Vadim moved to touch his lips to Dan's, tilting his head with his hand, urging him to open up and pressed in harder, needed…

— Aleksandr Voinov