Quotes About Desire

Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

People rarely do what they don't want to.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more." "That sounds excruciating.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

Disappointment is simply a dream that doesnt want to become a reality.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

All I'm asking for is what I want.

Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

Guard the secret theater of your heart. See nothing there that you do not want to see happen in reality.

The TV provides pictures, therefore creates fame, and that's what makes it seductive to a lot of people. They want to be famous. They want to be recognized. And I've gotten all that out of my system.

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this.

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.