Desire Quote by Saint Augustine

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken…

— Emile Durkheim

“There is plenty of misery in the world, all right, but there is ample pleasure, as well. If a person forswears pleasure in order…

— Tom Robbins

“For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause…

— Luigi Pirandello

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his…

— Luigi Pirandello

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing…

— Phillips Brooks

“For human nature is such that grief and pain—even simultaneously suffered—do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide, the lesser…

— Primo Levi

Only hope can give rise to the emotion we call despair. But it is nearly impossible for a man to try to live without…

— Samurai Champloo

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

— Marcel Proust

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

— Blaise Pascal

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

— Willie Nelson

“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is…

— Albert Camus

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference,…

— Honore de Balzac