Quotes
Quotes about Desire
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium Nudus castra peti.]
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. [Lat., Velle suuum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.]
I do desire we may be better strangers.
Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
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.
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.
Desire is the very essence of man.
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
The first principle of success is desireâ knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happenâthat's the most exalting.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Desire is the essence of a man.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
All human activity is prompted by desire.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
