Quotes About Desire

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

You may ask me for anything you like except time.

O, for an engine to keep back all clocks!

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.

If someone said, "Write a sentence about your life," I'd write, "I want to go outside and play."

What you can't get is just what suits you.

No one is content with his own lot.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered, "Somebody else's."

The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.

None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.

Man's heart is never satisfied; the snake would swallow the elephant.

We all envy other people's luck.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.

There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here."

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.