Quotes About Desire

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to share everything I've got with somebody - and sometimes I think I'm very lucky to have the bathroom to myself. But I feel it would be nice to pass on my knowledge. Perhaps because I haven't got children - one wants to educate somebody.

I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

the more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.

Once apon a time, Ian's dark, dreamy eyes had made her melt inside. The angle of his head, the wrinkle in the left corner of his lip—they'd obsessed her. And he'd been obsessed right back. Now all Amy wanted to do was throw her shoe at the screen.

Love everything but do not strive to possess anything.

hunches are mostly your brain telling you what you want to hear.

When asked what they want, many adults will say what they want to get rid of.

When people who are actually creating a system start to see themselves as the source of their problems, they invariably discover a new capacity to create results they truly desire.

We came to see that the Great Awakening was actually a reawakening of a deep national desire for the Covenant Way of life. This yearning did not die with the passing of the Puritan era, but only went dormant. It was a desire which would produce a new generation of clergymen who would help to prepare America to fight for her life.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

passed through that magical and mysterious looking glass that comes with fame and success, on the far side of which people come to you unbidden and ask if they can give you what you want.

We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration

The night itself wanted to touch her

I loved my dreams more than reality.

It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.

sinful activities are whatever we do with the goal of bringing us into proximity with that which we believe will fill the void in our existence.