“At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.”
Scott Hahn (1957) American theologian
Source: Hope for Hard Times
“Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.”
Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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“The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery”
Paramahansa Yogananda book Autobiography of a Yogi
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.”
Rabih Alameddine book An Unnecessary Woman
Source: An Unnecessary Woman
“We are more than our base desires, and our lives are not sustained by gratifying them.”
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
