Desire Quotes

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?': Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.

Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

Love is desire for knowledge.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.

Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.

In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.