Quotes About Desire

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

Herkes istediÄŸini yapabilir, ama istediÄŸini isteyemez

Countless numbers of people find themselves in want, simply because, when they had money, they spent it only to get momentary relief from the feeling of boredom which oppressed them.

Adev?rul nu este o prostituat? care se arunc? de gâtul celor care n-o doresc; el este, dimpotriv?, o femeie frumoas? ÅŸi atât de distant?, încât nici cel care-i jertfeÅŸte totul nu poate fi sigur de favorurile ei.

Ac?s?z bir duruma bir de can s?k?nt?s?n?n yokluÄŸu eklenirse, iÅŸte o zaman dünyevi mutluluÄŸa büyük ölçüde eriÅŸilmiÅŸtir: Çünkü geri kalan bir hayaldir.

No man has ever felt perfectly happy in the present; if he had it would have intoxicated him.

El hombre puede, acaso, hacer lo que quiere; pero no puede querer lo que quiere.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.

All willing springs from lack, from deficiency, and thus from suffering.

Thus the will-to-live generally feasts on itself, and is in different forms its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it subdues all the others, regards nature as manufactured for its own use.

El fin último de todo asunto amoroso es más importante que todos los demás fines de la vida del hombre; y por lo tanto, es merecedor de la profunda seriedad con que cada uno lo persigue. En efecto, lo que aquí se decide es nada menos que la composición de la siguiente generación.

For if anything in the world is desirable, so desirable that even the dull and uneducated herd in its more reflective moments would value it more than silver and gold, it is that a ray of light should fall on the obscurity of our existence, and that we should obtain some information about this enigmatical life of ours, in which nothing is clear except its misery and vanity.

Directly after copulation the devil's laughter is heard

This need for excitement of the will manifests itself very specially in the discovery and support of card-playing, which is quite peculiarly the expression of the miserable side of humanity.

Querer, en esencia, es sufrir, y como vivir es querer, toda vida es esencialmente dolor.

We must first learn from experience what we desire and what we can do. Till then we know it not, we are without character, and must often be driven back to our own way by hard blows from without. But if we have finally learnt it, then we have attained to what in the world is called character, the acquired character. This is accordingly nothing but the most perfect knowledge possible of our own individuality.

Akl? ba??nda ki?i ho? olan?n de?il, ac? vermeyenin pe?indedir. -Aristoteles, Nikomakhos

Bir ÅŸeyi tutup ona sahip olmak istediÄŸimizde hayattaki say?s?z baÅŸka ÅŸeyden feragat ederek bunlar?n sa??ndan solundan geçip gitmek zorunda kal?r?z

Wir verleben unsre schönen Tage, ohne sie zu bemerken: erst wenn die schlimmen kommen, wünschen wir jene zurück.

Der Tor läuft den Genüssen des Lebens nach und sieht sich betrogen.

Der Reichtum gleicht dem Seewasser: je mehr man davon trinkt, desto durstiger wird man. - Dasselbe gilt vom Ruhm.

Arthur Schopenhauer

O espírito íntimo e o sentido da vida verdadeira e pura do claustro e do ascetismo em geral, é sentirmo-nos dignos e capazes de uma existência melhor do que a nossa, e querermos fortificar e manter esta convicção pelo desprezo de todos os vãos gozos deste mundo. Espera-se com segurança e calma o fim desta vida, livre das ilusões enganadoras, para saudar um dia a hora da morte como a da libertação.

Will is the lord of all worlds: everything belongs to it, and therefore no one single thing can ever give it satisfaction, but only the whole, which is endless.