Quotes About Desire

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

Mother of otherness, Eat me.

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.