Quotes About Desire

Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.

The natural man has only two primal passions - to get and beget.

While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.

Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

I am always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.

What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue!

Love, and do what you like.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won't satisfy.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.

We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

The finer impulse of our nature.

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.