Desire Quotes

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

...Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.

We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.

What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.

Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.

Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more

What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.

By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart.

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

The future is needed as a space to project your desires. To project, future is needed.

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within.

Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it!

Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future.

When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of the ego, you cannot see it.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.

Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.

There's been an instant desire to try to take some of the rhetoric that has done so well for Mr. Trump and apply it to Australian politics.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.