Desire Quote by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Life's existential tasks have lost the interest of reality; illusion cannot build a sanctuary for the divine growth of inwardness which ripens to decisions.…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“True manhood lies in living amongst those who wish to witness your downfall, while true courage is found in sharing your laughter to bring…

— Giridhar Alwar

“That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest…

— Milton Steinberg

“A man has a hard time feeling fulfilled when he lives a life that does not serve a purpose that is more than himself.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Man is the sole and absolute master of his own fate forever. What he has sown in the times of his ignorance, he must…

— Paul Bragg

“Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

“In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Man did not give himself the taste for the infinite and the love of what is immortal. These sublime instincts are not born of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man–every man–is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the…

— Ayn Rand

“wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to obtain that…

— Leo Tolstoy