“To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake” DesireMistakeEternalImmortalityGreat Mistakes Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.” LoveHomeDesireLove IsMistakeGratificationFrantic Author:Vernon Howard
“To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer. The strength of this inborn desire to write has always baffled me. It is understandable that the really gifted should feel an overwhelming urge to use their gift; but a strong urge with only a slight gift seems almost a genetic mistake.” FeelsShouldWritingUseSeemsDesireStrongMistakeCareersRemainsUrgesOverwhelmingGiftedBaffledOverwhelming Urge Author:Dervla Murphy
“Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.” GivingFeelingsDesireForceMistakePovertyViolenceGive MeBreathsImpressionRealisticRealismExtremism Author:Georges Bataille