Quotes About Desire

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet

Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission?

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.

The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.

I know what I want in life: I want the life itself!

Stick to life, just like a baby sticking to a candy!

Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

I'm scared I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

Look to see what you most desire in your life, then ride that feeling all the way to creation.

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?

The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.

A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct- Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he's take over the world- my life, if I let him. Mercy

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.