Quotes About Desire

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

I'll come no more behind your scenes, David [Garrick]; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

God forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W Pens maid Betty was gone away yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I have also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not, for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.

I saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I went in after her and kissed her.

did here sit two or three hours calling for twenty books to lay this money out upon, and found myself at a great losse where to choose, and do see how my nature would gladly return to laying out money in this trade.

for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I had also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.

And here je did baiser elle, but had not opportunity para hazer some with her as I would have offered if je had had it.

else I am grown worse to please than heretofore.

It's a beautiful universe... wondrous and the more exciting because no one has written plays and poems and built sculptures to indicate the structure of desire I negotiate every day as I move about in it.