Quote by Stephenie Meyer

“Could a person die from gratification deprivation? It certainly felt like it was a possibility.”

— Genna Rulon

“Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“It wasn’t what I’d characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires. I was…

— Haruki Murakami

“At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure…

— Shūsaku Endō

“He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.”

— Patrick Süskind

“I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That's what hope was. Clinging to something you weren't sure would ever be yours. But you had to hold on anyway, because without it,…

— Jennifer Rush

“It had been wonderful and they had been truly happy and he had not known that you could love anyone so much that you…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Certainly,nothing proceeded according to desire.In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Good intentions had miscarried,…

— Joseph Heller

“There was nothing healthy about desperately wanting something you couldn't have.”

— Wendy Higgins

“It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person…

— Shannon Celebi

“Desire wasn’t the only thing between us. There was so much more: forgiveness, acceptance, relief, and most importantly, love.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout