Quote by Philip Larkin

“The story of my life is wanting, hungering, for what I cannot have or, perhaps, wanting what I dare not allow myself to have.”

— Roxane Gay

“Desire always breeds more desire. Eventually, it becomes difficult to control.”

— Andy Raskin

“If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.”

— Walter Moers

“Desire gives pain to the heart from which springs both hope and worry. Out of suspicion I make mistakes that grow into lasting ills.…

— Laurel Corona

“But it takes courage to want things, and to pursue them. Staying numb means you can never be disappointed.”

— Sarina Bowen

“I prefer to let desire make impossibility fail.”

— Brandon Blankenburg

“For need can blossom into all the compensations it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the…

— Osamu Dazai

“It was as if I were powerless to resist the temptation; my senses were overcome. I could hear the emptiness, and taste the silence,…

— Nick Hornby

“Life is very strange. Here we miss the very thing that we crave for and cling to, and we find what we don’t seek.…

— Osho

“I suppose it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself then the world will ever dare inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The desire is so strong, the pleasure so infinite, I find it difficult to breathe.”

— Megan Keith