Desire Quote by Thomas Mann

“This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness -- they were he admitted to himself, an impulse towards flight,…

— Thomas Mann

“For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert…

— Colm Tóibín

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative.…

— Robert Briffault

“He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The…

— Lois Lowry

“Terribly thwarted in the autumn and winter, deadened in summer, in the spring his egoism would awaken his once inadequately defined revolt against world…

— Danilo Kiš

“Now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an…

— Virginia Woolf

“For many minutes, for many hours, for a bleak eternity, he lay awake, shivering, reduced to primitive terror, comprehending that he had won freedom,…

— Sinclair Lewis

“The relief that he didn’t, and the desire that he might”

— Jessie Burton

“It was the very essence of his life to be a solitary achievement, accomplished not by hermit-like withdrawal with it's silence and immobility but…

— Joseph Conrad