Desire Quotes

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Whoever desires is always poor.

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.

What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.

Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church.

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

Action will lead you forward to the success you desire.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

You must be able to see yourself, with your inner eye, already in possession of the good you desire.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.