Quotes About Desire

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can´t have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren´t satisfied - before working some more.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.

Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

intentions. That's important in music, too. Critically important. What you're thinking about can be what you become.

when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.

Sunflowers waiting for the sunshine. Violets just waiting for dew. Bees just waiting for honey And honey, I'm just waiting for you!

You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

For centuries, musicians have sought to find me at the end of a needle or the bottom of a drink. It is an illusion. And it often ends badly. Take

And thus unknowingly, Dor began to serve his sentence -- to hear every plea from every soul who desired more of the thing he had first identified, the thing that moved man further from the simple light of existence and deeper into the darkness of his own obsessions. Time.

Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? Dor said. It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. He lowered his hand from Victor's eyes. When you are measuring time, you are not living it. I know.

That's who I want to be when I grow up.

Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

The very thought of you and I forget to do the little ordinary things that everyone ought to do…

Wanting what you can't have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren't satisfied -- before working some more.

Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go so desperately.

There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said.