Quotes About Desire

My marriage broke up when what I really wanted in my life was children. I really worried about it and thought, 'I'm not married anymore. I'm probably never going to get the chance to have children.' All those things run through your mind.

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

More than anything else, I'm a very calm person in the sense that I don't worry about the future and what my life could be. I just have to face it, and I'll face it with enthusiasm as well as the desire and curiosity to test myself.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

Let's face it. I'm not a personality or the handsome actor type. When you have those God-given assets, you don't have to worry if your acting leaves something to be desired. You can just play yourself on the screen and the public comes flocking to your pictures.

All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.

I'm always like the guy who wants to date the pretty girl so bad, and when he finally gets the chance, he blows it because he spends too much time worrying about it.

One of the lessons of 2016 is to spend less time worrying about what will happen and more time worrying about what we want to happen.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Temptation is just the feeling that you're the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That's something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I'm in, the same thing exists! But it's 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you're in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.