Quotes About Desire

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.

The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.

It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

It's really, really hard to watch people struggling and not want to fix it.

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

I never looked at a title and said, I want that.

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.

It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.

How can you call it unreasonable when all I want is my own way?

I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

We all have that desire for something special, something committed. We all want to be The One.