William Braxton Irvine - Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the g

Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

- William Braxton Irvine

source: William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

topic: Girl, Running, Baby, Math Problems, Reason To Live, No Reason To Live, Nursing Home