Quotes About Desire

I wish to die painting.

We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to

When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward.

The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.

In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

The warrior of Light perseveres in his desire, but knows he must wait for the best moment.

The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

I wanted to bring Lissa back, and I wanted to return to Adrian's arms again, return to his lips and all this life... "Hathaway! Good God, do I have to hose you down?

I have to be careful what I ask for in life, cause I always seem to get it! The good thing is, Ive got a purpose now, whereas before my purpose was to go out and party.

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.