Desire Quotes

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

My dreams, my desires, and my goals make me smile.

I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.

God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

You can't get out-fought and out-desired. I don't want to see that again. I won't tolerate less than 100 percent desire. I'm their manager, not their babysitter.

There's no prayer like desire.

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

Next to love is the desire for love.

Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.