Desire Quote by S. Jae-Jones

“They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented lives.”

— William Golding

“For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love…

— Mary Shelley

“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

“For a time, I was quite literally at loss as to what to do with myself. For more than half a century I had…

— Khaled Hosseini

“But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery.”

— Ivan Turgenev

“All I wanted was to be put to death without torment. It was perhaps a weakness, but I believe that the mind of man…

— Victor Hugo

“But these were days of self-fulfillment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life seemed weak-willed and ignoble.…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“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

“The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it.…

— Frederick Douglass

“My whole life I’d lived off the one wretched ambition that still possessed me: to be more than I was; to reject and despise…

— Mela Hartwig

“In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt…

— B.G. Bowers

“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.”

— Edith Wharton