Hungry man Quote by Truman Capote

“Life is hunger, thirst, and passion for an ultimate object, which looms over the horizon, and yet always lies beyond it. When this is…

— Luigi Giussani

“That man indeed lives in a zone where no multiplicity can distress him and which is nevertheless the most active workshop of universal fulfillment.”

— Philip K. Dick

“At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but…

— Lionel Suggs

“In this condition one enriches everything out of one's own abundance: what one sees, what one desires, one sees swollen, pressing, strong, over laden…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For here is a man who, in some sense, is desperate, in a frenzy. The world keeps disappearing, losing meaning, vanishing - and he…

— Oliver Sacks

“In this world of too much, we are simultaneously overstimulated and bored, enriched and empty, connected yet isolated and alone.”

— Tony Crabbe

“No one thing shows the greatness and power of the human intellect or the loftiness and nobility of man more than his ability to…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself, he lets…

— Edmund Wilson

“There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force.…

— Joseph Conrad

“And whether a man dispassionately Sees to the core of life Or passionately Sees the surface They are essentially the same”

— Lao Tzu

“Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.”

— John Steinbeck

“Ironically, the more we crave to possess and dominate the world and others, the deeper and more unbearable becomes the chasm of our own…

— Stephen Batchelor