Desire Quote by Martin Cosgrove

“Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.”

— David Grann

“...savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands...”

— Barry Eisler

“Once upon a time, loss of love, rejection, weakness and loss of territory all meant death. Now it just feels that way.”

— Julian Short

“Sometimes loneliness itself can be the food our souls desire.”

— John Mulhall

“For whence had that former sorrow so easily penetrated to the quick, but that I had poured out my soul upon the dust, in…

— Saint Augustine

“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The desperate loneliness is nothing compared to the torture of falling in love and then being abandoned.”

— A.J. Nuest

“Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.”

— Franz Kafka

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“Not loneliness, but solitude. Not suffering, but endurance, the discovery of grim kinship with the rocks and sky. And the finding here of a…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I suffered with a desire to be alone, unfortunately coupled with an intolerance of others.”

— Jon Richardson

“Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.”

— Robin Hobb