Quotes About Desire

Vivir es relacionarse, gozar y padecer, desear, aborrecer y amar. La lectura es vida artificial y prestada, el usufructo, mediante una función cerebral, de las ideas y sensaciones ajenas, la adquisición de los tesoros de la verdad humana por compra o por estafa, no por el trabajo. No

Por qué lo que no se tiene se desea, y lo que se tiene se desprecia?

No quiero yo alas ni alones, ni andar entre ángeles sosos que tocan el arpa. Déjenme a mí de arpas y acordeones y de fulgores celestes. Venga mi vida mortal, y salud y amor, y todo lo que deseo.

Love was love, and always demanded more than a lover was capable of giving.

Creo que en el interior de cada hombre cuelga un retrato estilizado de la mujer ideal, un modelo con el que comparar a esta o a aquella mortal de carne y hueso que sostiene entre sus brazos.

And yet the glow, that inward glow, that was a thing he did not wish to live without, whatever the state of his liver or his brain.

Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!

It is true that love is a feeling one places, whenever one feels the need of placing it, on the first object that happens along

La guerre est antérieure au commerce ; car la guerre et le commerce ne sont que deux moyens différents d'atteindre le même but : celui de posséder ce que l'on désire.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Human beings are creatures of hope. We seek it in everything we do, we live for it, and we die holding onto it.

The creeds are not changing as rapidly as the beliefs of the people, nor as rapidly as most men of progressive mind desire.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Hunger is the best pickle.

Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

He wish'd to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.