Quotes About Desire

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

What men yearn for they often destroy.

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.