Desire Quote by Thomas Hobbes

“Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?”

— Sylvia Engdahl

“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment..”

— Viktor Frankl

“That the life of man is but a dream, many a man has surmised heretofore; and I, too, am everywhere pursued by this feeling.…

— Anonymous

“Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.”

— Charles Dickens

“In wanting, a man knows himself better than in having, since, in the absence of temporal things, man is better prepared for the reception…

— ascribed to Johannes Tauler

“I am quite willing to be the blind instrument of higher ends. To give one's life for the cause is nothing. But to have…

— Joseph Conrad

“and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know about them,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Among the Conscious, a man is only worth his latest reading.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“For only thus, living each moment separately and looking neither forward nor back, could such a life be borne and a man keep himself…

— Ivo Andrić

“But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently no longer…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires”

— Richard Wright