All ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Quotes about “Desire”

“Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.”
“The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.”
“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
“The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.”
“Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.”
“To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake”
“Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire”
“We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life”
“To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.”
“It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.”

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