Quotes About Desire

Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

What we want is never simple.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived; less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

Ambition destroys its possessor.

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is, rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be Somebody.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

She deceiving, I believing; What need lovers wish for more?

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?