Desire Quotes

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Having begun to feel, people’s desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite h...

We are to blame if reality does not take the form we desire. Whatever we have not desired with suffi...

Ah love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire Would not we...

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. D...

I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between m...

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophist...

Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison w...

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with ...

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no...

He was discovering that even hatred died a little at the end. But it still lasted longer than desire...

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignida...

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...

The Warrior looks at the column of Fear, where he reads: “you are about to enter an unknown and dang...

It isn'y explanations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a ...

It’s whatever the majority deems it to be. It’s not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it...

Stella, the only planet of my light,Light of my life, and life of my desire,Chief good, whereto my h...

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to b...

Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.

I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

You, yesterday’s boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure ...

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is...

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite...

Desire, desire which knows, we draw no advantage from our shadows except from some veritable soverei...

I am dead because I lack desire,I lack desire because I think I possess.I think I possess because I ...

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, a...

He took the woman from her bed, pretending not to notice the question posed in his mind: Why do you ...

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.

I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an

A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a p...

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from other...

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from other...

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from other...

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from other...

Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers,...

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against ...

As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires...

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grow...

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every ...

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you w...

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

they comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love i...

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed...

What', said he, ' makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every be...

I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I...

And his left nipple was centimetres above my right eye. I wanted to lean my head back and lick it – ...

Desire isn’t appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join wi...

Well, your perfect erotic object remains only in recognition memory); and his absolute absence from ...

You've blotted the rich form of desire from my life and left me only some vaguely eccentric behavior...

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m...

Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;It is the reflex of our earthly frame,That takes i...

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originali...

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...

If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are...

We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because w...

We don't really want to get what we think that we want.I am married to a wife and relationship with ...

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we de...

In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outsid...

Always desire to learn something useful.

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear ...

Nothing lasts forever,' Richie repeated. He looked up at Bill, and Bill saw tears cut slowly through...

Hope and desire,All unfulfilled,Have more than ropeAnd hangman killed.

I am gazing-- desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children.

Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity

I salute my desires with a bow.were it not for them to come and playmind would be empty just like me...

Appetite knows what it craves, without cerebral embellishment. It tends not to waste any time laying...

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.

Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and...

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic ...

How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To re...

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

The low-tone clarinet moans. The door upstairs opens again. Stella slips down the rickety stairs in ...

Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly syn...

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 ...