32. Desire is uneasiness.
That desire is a state of uneasiness, every one who reflects on himself will quickly find.
Who is there that has not felt in desire what the wise man says of hope, (which is not much different from it), that
it being "deferred makes the heart sick"; and that still proportionable to the greatness of the desire, which
sometimes raises the uneasiness to that pitch, that it makes people cry out, "Give me children." give me the thing
desired, "or I die." Life itself, and all its enjoyments, is a burden cannot be borne under the lasting and unremoved
pressure of such an uneasiness.
