Desire Quote by Thomas Wolfe

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?

— Tom Wolfe

“Once a boy has slammed his kneecap into your rib cage, I think any romantic feeling should naturally go the way of the ghost.”

— Rachel Hawkins

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's…

— Rosario Dawson

I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as…

— Rachel Cusk

I went through a lot. I had a difficult, in some ways, a difficult upbringing. I had this kind of urge, this like burning…

— Lola Young

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of…

— Anonymous

“The main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual,…

— George Orwell

“you desire to escape. I wish to run away. I thought we might help each other.”

— Alex Flinn

“Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.”

— Iris Murdoch

For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches…

— Bob Marshall

“If the driving force behind bettering human life is our insatiable desire to escape mortality what will we do when we succeed?”

— Tim J. Brooks

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual,…

— George Orwell