Desire Quote by Nicholas of Cusa

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

— Rabindranath Tagore

We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to…

— Eric Butterworth

Desire creates its own object.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

— Shunryu Suzuki

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a reason to…

— Sarah Winman

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

— Herbie Hancock

One must desire something to be alive.

— Margaret Deland

I don't think anyone really knows the purpose of their existence.

— Oliver Sykes

I desire therefore I exist.

— Angela Carter

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

— Eleanor Catton