Quotes About Desire

Steven Erikson

Our ignorance is such that most of us don't realize we're thirsty. Or, if we realize we're thirsty, we look for water in the wrong place. We go into fire looking for cool refreshment. And often we're confused about what our thirst actually is.

The law and will of the devil is written as well in our hearts as in our members, and we run headlong after the devil with full zeal, and the whole swing of all the power we have; as a stone cast up into the air comes down naturally of his own self, with all the violence and swing of his own weight.15

Calvin was not a silver-tongued orator, but a Bible-teaching expositor. Above all else, he desired to bring his people to the Scriptures.

People don't want to be loved, they want to feel loved.

In real life we want only the best for the people we care about. In fiction, we want things to get the worst for the characters we care about the most, at least on their pathway to the climax.

Justice doesn't always have clean hands, and we all have dark desires clawing at our wills.

By the time Jesus came to earth, Israel's religious leaders had blinded the eyes of an entire nation as to who God really was and what He desired from His people.

the failure of language." "It's a creative destruction. Out of that failure comes culture. Out of culture comes desire. Out of desire come products.

But what worse fate could there be? To remember love and know it is unattainable?

She sat for a long time in the chair, rocking gently, wishing she were thinner. Somehow that would make all of this turmoil vanish.

No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there

There is nothing like a sanitized present to make one yearn for the wicked past.

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Nero wanted only to be an actor; Commodus, to be a gladiator; and young Antoninus Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to be Venus!

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

Cecie keeps telling him she'd like to take him home some night, husband or no. The Minotaur waits hopefully. Husband or no.

Pity the child for his loss. He truly wanted his laser gun to kill the Minotaur, believed that it would, even. Each time an act of hope fails, the capacity for experiencing hope itself diminishes. The child will be lucky if he reaches adulthood with even a shred of faith intact.

But it wasn't Helen's face alone that launched the Greeks' celebrated thousand ships. It was the lure of booty.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

Some for the Glories of the World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

You can't have everything... where would you put it? Steven Wright