Quotes About Desire

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on.

I'm interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.