Quotes About Desire

Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want

Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

I'm satisfied with a little while you haters want it all. You waitin' for the spring and I'm gettin' it in the fall.

A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?

On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.

If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

That's my No. 1 goal. I want to be part of (captain) Tom Lehman 's team.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.