Desires Quotes

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its ...

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings...

...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that ac...

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, a...

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

I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open u...

Always having what we wantmay not be the best good fortuneHealth seems sweetestafter sickness, foodi...

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambiti...

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

...where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road.

We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fa...

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those with...

It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost ...

For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.

To want is to have a weakness.

For nurturing the mind, there’s nothing like paring your desires away to a very few. If you have few...

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, wi...

Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses – whatever you desire. The world will be built new for you every mor...

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev...

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinct...

I like desires like childrenand their playsthat tease me now and then intoknowing life.

A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to brin...

When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becom...

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in., ...

The best is the enemy of good.

Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed ont...

The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almo...

A poem can't free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites burie...

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relati...

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satis...

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the speci...

As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and des...

What you have made me see,' answered the Lady, 'is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Y...