Quotes About Desire

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

I believe, unless I had a new book, I was never happy.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.

The fresh green and fragrant winds of a May morning make an aristocrat of my life. Under a dripping sky-blue window, I would like to ply forks of pure silver with a woman I love. Someday, once in my life, I would like to steal and eat that love-plate of skylarks, which gleams in the sky.

Am I the reason you breathe Or am I the reason you cry?

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Only a few prefer liberty- the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.

Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt. (Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.)

ubi intenderis ingenium valet; si libido possidet, ea dominatur, animus nihil valet.

But attention focused on their inane sexual banter, especially Charles's juvenile wish to be reincarnated as a tampon so he could "live inside your trousers.

Wanting to die (or 'suicidal ideation'as the experts would have it) goes hand in hand with the illness. It is a symptom of severe depression, not a character failing or moral flaw. Nor is it, truly, a desire to die so much as a fervent wish not to go on living. All depressives understand that distinction.

God desires to work supernaturally through normal people who are willing to follow Him wholeheartedly and reflect His glory.

It's all about your heart. Are you yielding yourself to Christ each moment because you love Him and desire to please Him? When that is truly the desire of your heart, you will begin to exhibit His life in your circumstances. As the apostle Paul reminds us, "Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit" (Romans 8:5, NLT).

An eternally favorite deadly sin, lust fascinates through experience: our appetites and passions of sight, sound, taste, touch, and scent. We anticipate what it might be like to fulfill a craving, and that anticipation pulls us closer. As early as the sixth century AD, lust emerged as public enemy number one for Christians. And not without reason. Overcoming desire is no easy task. Buddhism presents the overcoming of desire as an ideal.

Self-control was overrated.

The poor bloke must have been besotted. Now me, I'm just in love.

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.