Quotes About Desire

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I spent a lot of money on booze, women and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

She was so pretty, so elegant, it made me lonely just to look at her.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

A master passion is the love of news.

I was in love with him. I mean, I'm not gay, but this was a physical love. When I was around him, I couldn't breathe. I felt like he was the world. I loved him the way that a worm loves its apple.

An apple is an excellent thing — until you have tried a peach.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.