Desire Quote by William Faulkner

We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into…

— John Muir

That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every…

— Samuel Johnson

“Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

— Christopher Hitchens

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

— George D. Prentice

“For my part I have some fellow-feeling with Dr. Sprague: one's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to…

— George Eliot

“A great measure of the real value of the things we have is how we feel when such things become scarce and absent in…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.

— Derek Walcott

Things that are easily acquired, obtained, or maintained, without any effort or sacrifice lack value...it's human nature.

— Anonymous

“Find satisfaction independent of material trappings.”

— Steven Redhead

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities…

— Christian Nestell Bovee