If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own backyard; because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.
Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.
Almost all our desires, when closely examined, contain what we dare not avow.[Presque toutes nos convoitises, examinées, contiennent de l’inavouable.]
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
You see, I want a lot. Maybe I want it all: the darkness of each endless fall, the shimmering light of each ascent.[Du siehst, ich will viel. Vielleicht will ich Alles: das Dunkel jedes unendlichen Falles und jedes Steigens lichtzitterndes Spiel.]
You call it hope – that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
We work to attain an object, and the object gained, we find that what we miss is the daily toil.
We do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change.[Nous n’arrivons pas à changer les choses selon notre désir, mais peu à peu notre désir change.]
We can love those we hate more easily than those who love us more than we want them to.[Nous sommes plus près d’aimer ceux qui nous haïssent que ceux qui nous aiment plus que nous ne voulons.]
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
