Desire Quotes

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li...

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings ...

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probabl...

and yet…' he said, 'and yet, father, I am terribly afraid. I am afraid that the things the Landlord ...

You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.' Dante w...

...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased...

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed ...

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a...

How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I y...

There is something here that frightens me. When I figure out what it is that frightens me, I shall a...

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach...

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the out...

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I w...

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you wan...

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there ar...

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence...

Each one of us is the architect of his own fate; and he is unfortunate indeed who will try to build ...

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and...

The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it a...

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Let the mechanics of desire bring your fulfilment without interference.the more you interfere, the l...

We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equi...

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; a...

What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakab...

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its ow...

And beauty is terror,' said Julian, 'then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact...

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled

If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.

Mr. Pembroke, watching his broad back, desired to bury a knife in it. The desire passed, partly beca...

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation tha...

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to ...

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not bec...

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though ...

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—real...

Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though...

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. ...

I was not sorrowful, but only tiredOf everything that ever I desired.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimi...

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the...

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our...

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to eve...

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You co...

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-im...

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitu...

It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, o...

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

The only consolation, even for someone like him who had been a good man in bed, was sexual peace: th...

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. P...

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. H...

Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.

It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my th...

The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no suc...

To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear l...

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To co...

The source of love, as I learned later, is a curiosity which, combined with the inclination which na...

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

It is not by means of a metaphor that a banking or stock-market transaction, a claim, a coupon, a cr...

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us th...

Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a sc...

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I elimin...

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not c...

Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and ev...

...perhaps, also this short embrace may infuse in their veins a little of this thrill which they wou...

Freud wrote that love involves the undervaluation of reality and the overvaluation of the desired ob...

Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desir...

Overheard on a Saltmarsh"Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at ...