Desire Quotes
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.
After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.
Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.
She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.
If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.
Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.
Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.
O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.
The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.
War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.
Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.
I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.
It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.
Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.