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Quotes About Desire

Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know, in part of your mind, that human being couldn't possess because you don't possess.
~ Bill Maher
You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.
~ Bill Vaughan
It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.
~ Bob Myers
And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode.
~ Bob Seger
Our problem with desire is that we want too little.
~ C. S. Lewis
In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.
~ Cameron Diaz
Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.
~ Carol Shields
I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.
~ Chaka Khan
I have nothing against old people; I want to be one myself one day.
~ Charles Barkley
I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.
~ Chris Thile
"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."
~ Coco Chanel
It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.
~ Dan Brown
The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.
~ Daniel Clowes
People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.
~ Daniel Goleman
It's not about the goal, it's about how you want to feel when you get there.
~ Danielle LaPorte
True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.
~ David J. Lieberman
Boys always like to see girls kiss. I don't get it; girls don't want to see boys kiss.
~ Dominique Swain
Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it
~ Drake
It boils down to how much do you really believe and want it.
~ Duane Ludwig
...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.
~ Elvis Presley
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."
~ Emile M. Cioran