Quotes About Desire

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.

The more we take, the less we become.

So fulfil your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

That which the ignorant do with desire for results and gain, let the wise do without any attachment and without any desire for results and gain.

if he does not desire any happiness, if he is free of all [attachment], of all fear, of all anger

The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature; then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire, thus increasing its turbulence. After desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of jealousy at the success of others, and last of all the demon of pride enters the mind, making it think itself of all importance. How hard to control such a mind!

Misery comes through attachment, not through work.

As to the thirst after knowledge, it is an old law that we all get whatever we want. None of us can get anything other than what we fix our hearts upon.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. Why

all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.

To love anyone personally is bondage. Love all alike, then all desires fall off.

D esire, ignorance, and inequality this is the trinity of bondage

I've cried out, and my cry has been answered--but life, with all its contradictions and ambiguities, hasn't ended there. The thirsty man drinks and gets thirsty again.

How mysteriously alone we are! How tempting to imagine that if we're loved, our loneliness will be dispelled.

why, after all this sex, am I still ashamed about sex? Why, when I look at a woman, does the guilt follow so quickly upon the desire that the two have become indistinguishable?

Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here What was it about Was it her smile Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.

Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.