Quotes About Desire

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

Prospect is often better than possession.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!

I want to do it because I want to do it.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

When people say: she's got everything, I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.

Sex is an emotion in motion.

Sex, unlike justice, should not be seen to be done.

Sex is the great amateur art.