5 Willa Cather Quotes on Desire

Willa Cather quotes on desire

23. Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire.

28. When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

42. I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister - anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.

49. Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

64. In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.