443 Desire Quotes

The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Or as an ook comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

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.

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

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.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

O, she is the antidote to desire.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

'He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.'

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

It's hard for a man to turn down sex : if they chase us, we can't run that fast.

Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

What ardently we wish we soon believe.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation- the other eight are unimportant.

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Deny your desires and you will find what your heart longs for. For how do you know if any desire of yours is according to God?

Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word 'disease' was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. 'Which disease?' 'The disease of love.'

The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.

'Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.'

Desire, ignorance, and inequality-this is the trinity of bondage.

What your soldier wants-- really, really wants -- is no-one shooting back at him.

'The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.'

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

'The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy'

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.