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Quotes About Desire

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
~ Christian Bovee
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
~ John Piper
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.
~ Arsene Houssaye
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
~ Immanuel Hermann Fichte
Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
~ Edward de Bono
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
~ Marquis de Sade
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
~ Timothy Keller
It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
~ Epictetus
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
~ Alexander Pope
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
~ Victor Hugo
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
~ Vauvenargues
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is egotistical.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
~ Aldous Huxley
The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.
~ Dalai Lama
Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.
~ Erich Fromm
The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!
~ Bill Watterson
Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
~ Alice Hegan Rice