Desire Quote by Samuel Johnson

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

— Samuel Johnson

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

— Albert Camus

One must desire something to be alive.

— Margaret Deland

He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

— Thomas Aquinas

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

— Agnes Repplier

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can…

— Samuel Johnson

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

— Johann Gottfried Seume

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt