Desire Quote by Marcel Proust

“The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best.”

— Peter Rollins

“But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton

“I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or…

— Emil Cioran

“There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But it's in despair that you discover the most intense pleasure, especially when you are acutely conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...desire had its exaggerated and dramatic pleasures, but he was bored by the endless scenes and recantations. Love was simply the same steady heartbeat…

— Robert Goolrick

“And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and unsteady source.”

— Seneca

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Jon Krakauer