Quotes About Desire

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

Dreams are what keep a man going.

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Men, for the most part, like to pursue women. We like not knowing if we can catch you. We feel rewarded when we do. Especially when the chase is a long one.

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

Most girls are attracted to the simple things in life. Like men.