Blank Quote by Thomas Malthus

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

— Horace

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“Well, and what if we give in to our troubles at every step! We would be pitiable creatures indeed to be so weak, for…

— Kamala Markandaya

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would…

— Richard Llewellyn

Sometimes people who want more than they can handle end up losing everything altogether. Greed and selfishness will get you nowhere in life

— Ritu Ghatourey

The all wise Creator of man imprest certain laws on his nature. A desire of happiness, and of society, are two of those laws.…

— John Dickinson

We all want survival, safety, security, peace, prosperity, opportunity, health, happiness, and love. Yet we seem utterly unable to produce it for any but…

— Neale Donald Walsch

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

— Margaret Oliphant

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

— Sylvia Plath

Life has all of these contradictory feelings and contradictory results. People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, and…

— Harold Ramis

As a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so much that…

— Tenzin Palmo