Desire Quotes

God loves his creatures, and he loves each one the more, the more it shares his own goodness, which ...

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rest...

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our a...

As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would h...

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the for...

Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.He whose worship is directed to a dead thing become...

Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self ...

Logic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at ob...

Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too ...

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then...

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must ...

She led him to the top of the stairs, where light came straight from the sky because the second-stor...

Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart ...

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the most in...

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides...

It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, bu...

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to descri...

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

I had possessed her - and she never knew it.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a bur...

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrewsNot to be born is the best for manThe second be...

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Through my history's despiteand ruin, I have cometo its remainder, and herehave made the beginningof...

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gow...

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon beco...

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in ...

To put it in a rather vulgar way, I had been dreaming about love in the firm belief that I could not...

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

"Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man."

Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:If in the breathless night I to...

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do a...

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some de...

Why do You thus devise Evil against her?' 'For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, lo...

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

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfacti...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for ano...

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot aff...

While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not...

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in w...

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the...

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side....

O bid these strangers go ;Turn to my lips till their cup overflow ;Hurt me with kisses, kill me with...

I could stand before him, be in his arms as I was just then, and still be lost to him, some phantom ...

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by n...

Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, an...

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

One could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as gr...

...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dr...

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts...

I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from ...

Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a ...

And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who nev...

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes a...

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two bei...

Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare,' female liberals in the medi...

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov...

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced ...

She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occas...

But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sp...

The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch...

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, ...

But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you wil...

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind ...

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all...

With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and...

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of i...

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ...

À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t...

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked b...

Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You’ve wondered why they suffer,...