Quotes About Desire

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south.