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Quotes About Desire

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.
~ David Deida
There is always some madness in love.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
~ Mother Teresa
Love is three quarters curiosity.
~ Giacomo Casanova
You are what you love. Not what loves you.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.
~ Cesare Borgia
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
~ Saint Augustine
This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.
~ Freddie Mercury
I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.
~ Loretta Lynn
Love starts when people don't need it and ends when they need it the most.
~ Katrina Kaif
Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish.
~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Everyone's competing for a love they won't receive.
~ Lorde
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
~ Albert Camus
If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
~ Anais Nin
I would really love to go to Thailand as so many people have told me how wonderful it is.
~ Pixie Lott
I think that love should be greater than your lust for each other.
~ Toni Gonzaga
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
~ Giacomo Casanova
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
~ Francois Rabelais
I am waiting for the day when I will see you again and hold your soft hands, touch your sweet lips and hug you tight so that you will never leave me again.
~ Mercy Johnson
I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
~ Pablo Neruda
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
~ Mortimer Adler