Desire Quotes

The key that unlocks energy is desire.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

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

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

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

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

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.

It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

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

Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Everything I desire is within me.

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.

When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.

On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.