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Quotes About Desire

It's our dreams that keep us going, that separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.
~ Mary Chase
Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.
~ Old saying
Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.
~ Thomas Fuller
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
~ Edward Moore
Riches certainly make themselves wings.
~ Proverbs
April is the crudest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
~ T. S. Eliot
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A miss for pleasure, and a wife for breed.
~ John Gay
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
~ Bible
There is a devil in every berry of the grape.
~ Koran
If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I wish I knew the good of wishing.
~ Henry S. Leigh
Thy wish was father to that thought.
~ William Shakespeare
As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
~ Terence
Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right.
~ Woody Allen
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
~ John Updike
The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
~ George Moore
When a man of 40 falls in love with a girl of 20, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
~ Lenore Coffee
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
~ Oscar Wilde
Addiction has a more powerful pull than just about anything else on earth.
~ Terri Guillemets
I guess if you take away the pain in life it means having no beauty to hope for.
~ Daniel, @blindedpoet