Quotes About Desire

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Envy is human nature.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

For greed, all nature is too little.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

Technology is lust removed from nature.

If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.