Apathy Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

— Greta Garbo

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become…

— Sheila Heti

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work…

— Grenville Kleiser

Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.

— Deepak Chopra

Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what,…

— Fernando Pessoa

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see…

— Peter Sotos

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

— Michel de Montaigne

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

— Gail Godwin

When you are at one with the world, you often find that the thing you seek is seeking you.

— Charles F. Haanel

Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and…

— Anonymous

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

— Georges Bataille

What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination…

— John Lancaster Spalding