Quotes About Desire

Life in the world functions by ego, attachment and desire, which gives the rise to the idea of "likes" and "dislikes". In this way the mind starts identifying all experiences in the world in terms of opposites, such as pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

No woman who wants something is a lady. If she is, she doesn't get it.

You are missing in my heart...!

If you want it to be good girl Get yourself a bad boy

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.

The consciousness of good intentions, however unsuccessful, affords a joy more real, pure, and agreeable to nature than all the other means that can be furnished, either for obtaining one's desire or quieting the mind.

It is strange how long some men will lie in wait to speak somewhat they desire to say; and how far about they will fetch; and how many other matters they will beat over, to come near it. It is a thing of great patience, but yet of much use.

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song.

I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.

I never wanted to be no rapper.

I originally wanted to be a rapper and musician.

I secretly want to be a rapper!

When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.

I knew I wanted to be a rapper when I was, like, 5.

When you get older, you try to get what you wanted as a kid. Maybe you wanted an arcade in your house or Q-Tip rapping on your beats.

It's so rare that you actually get the part that you really, really, really want.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.