Desire Quotes

Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

My motivation comes from a desire to make a difference in the quality of people's lives.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one. -Kenshin to Eiji

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

The desire, which is accomplished, is sweet to the soul.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

A connection to Spirit restores your confidence, relieves your anxiety, and frees you from the desire to control everything in your life.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.