Quotes About Desire

Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.

Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all pains, the greatest pain it is to love, but love in vain.

Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self, a journey into our killer's desire.

I just love the pressure, truthfully, man.

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

To be honest, while every market is very different, we are all still fundamentally moved and inspired by similar human truths - love, fear, belonging, desire, and so on.

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually does the opposite. The best scares come from a desire to see the character overcome what they're dealing with in the scene. If you care about the character you'll care about the scare.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You're gong to have good days, you're going to have bad days. You've got to have the same desire and try to get better each day.

I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it.

I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.