Quotes About Desire

A única felicidade é a de não ter nascido.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

A man may begin by following the craving of desire, until he comes to see how hollow and unreal a thing is life, how deceitful are its pleasures, what horrible aspects it possesses; and this it is that makes people hermits, penitents, Magdalenes.

El dolor no brota de no tener. Brota de querer tener y sin embargo no tener. El querer tener es la conditio sine qua non para que el dolor sea eficaz.

Querer es esencialmente sufrir, y como vivir es querer, toda la vida es por esencia dolor. Cuanto más elevado es el ser, más sufre... La vida del hombre no es más que una lucha por la existencia, con la certidumbre de resultar vencido...

O desejo sexual, sobretudo quando se concentra na paixão, fixando-se numa determinada mulher é a quintessência de todas as fraudes desse nobre mundo; isso porque promete indizivelmente, infinitamente e extraordinariamente muito e cumpre miseravelmente pouco.

everyone desires to achieve old age, that is to say a condition in which one can say: Today is bad, and day by day it will get worse - until at last the worst of all arrives.

Love is the best Eugenics.

But if all wishes were fulfilled as soon as they arose, how would men occupy their lives? what would they do with their time? If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

Fulfillment never satisfies, nothing is so fatal to an ideal than its realization.

Volere il meno possibile e conoscere il più possibile è stata la massima che ha guidato la mia vita.

El individuo es un vaso harto frágil para contender la aspiración infinita de la voluntad de la especie, concentrada en un objeto determinado.

To be happy one must be as ignorant as youth, youth thinks that willing and striving are joys - it does not yet discover the unending character of desire and the fruitless of fulfillment, It does not yet see the inevitableness of defeat

Money is human happiness in abstracto; consequently he who is no longer capable of happiness in concreto sets his whole heart on money.

The agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.

Ä°nsan yapabileceklerini isteyerek yapmal? ve çekmesi gereken ac?y? isteyerek çekmelidir. -Gnomici poetae Graeci

Umut gerçeÄŸin reddediliÅŸidir , koÅŸmaya devam etmesi için at?n burnunun ucunda salland?rd?klar? havuçtan ibarettir.

The ordinary man places his life's happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the like, so that when he loses them or finds them disappointing, the foundation of his happiness is destroyed. In other words, his center of gravity is not in himself; it is constantly changing its place, with every wish and whim.

Os caprichos advindos do instinto sexual são totalmente análogos aos fogos fátuos: enganam do modo mais vivo, mas, se os seguimos, eles conduzem-nos a um pântano e desaparecem.

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

A man can do what he wants but not want what he wants.

Si poseyera aquello que me falta, sería incapaz de disfrutarlo y me resultaría un estorbo

Avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu-atit ti-e mai sete.

perché come il mondo è da un lato, in tutto e per tutto, rappresentazione, così dall'altro, in tutto e per tutto, volontà.