Desire Quotes

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.

People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.

If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.

We are not old unless we desire to be.

I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.

She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent.

Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.

Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.

I've heard some readers saying they wished the story was longer, and I completely understand that desire - we all like to sink into a nice, long novel.

All men desire to be immortal.

What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

Desires are nourished by delays.

Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.

The fewer desires, the more peace.

O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love.

Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

If you spent your weekends in the clubs, you could see the change in the eyes of the people. They became merciless, in a way, in their desire to be entertained.

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?

We continue to build temples. We desire that as many members as possible have an opportunity to attend the temple without having to travel inordinate distances.

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

Everybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

My mantra is that I can go back home at anytime. I have a degree, I am smart, and I am honest. I care about my career and what I do, yet I know my lane and where I desire to go.

I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

Life is the dance between what you desire most, and what you fear most

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.