Quotes About Desire

Chasing after the unattainable is the fun part.

My dream was never to become this unattainable star.

I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.

Don't get me wrong: it's unbelievable getting linked with big clubs. That's where you want to go; of course it is.

Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

... I am At war 'twixt will and will not.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

I want to be in Star Wars. That would be amazing.

We always desire peace yet we prepare to go to war.

We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land.

Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.