Quotes About Desire

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.

Man aspires to greatness, but all too often his hopes are submerged by the primitive instinct to survive at any cost.

The sleek, expensive girls I teach,Younger and pinker every year,Bloom gradually out of reach.

Mongols were uneducated tribesmen who believed in enjoying life's simpler pleasures. Ghengis Khan expressed their philosophy most succinctly. 'Happiness,' he is recorded to have said, 'lies in conquering one's enemies, driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savouring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

What the American public wants is a tragedy with a happy ending

It's easy enough to be sensible for other people. But when it comes to myself, there I am! Especially, when I want to do what I oughtn't so much that it seems as if doing what I didn't want to do MUST be doing what I ought!

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

Cupid, you see, was a more dangerous archer than even mighty Apollo, for, although Apollo's arrows could drain one's life blood in an instant, a wound from Cupid's arrows would cause one to fall deeply in love

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

I seen a pretty woman in a red dress, the old man said. And then I seen her take it off. What else is there?

Before she'd shared his bed, life had been pointless, but now it had become unbearable. She had appeared from nowhere and returned to it, but she'd taken over his life, left with a lien on his body, a mortgage on his soul.

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Taking men as they have been and are, they are subjects of passion, emotion, and instinct. Only

The more the soul loves the word, the more craving it has after it.

Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed, if we will have it thrive, with no other milk than of its own mother. Therefore we are exhorted to 'desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow,' I Peter 2:2[33]; if this milk be but a little dashed with error, it is not so nutritive.

It was a notable speech of Erasmus, if spoken in ear nest, and his wit were not too quick for his con science[47]—he said he desired wealth and honour no more than a feeble horse doth a heavy cloak-bag. And I think every Christian in his right temper would be of his mind.

O loosen the roots of thy affections from the world, and the tree will fall more easily.

Cum carne nutriuntur vita carnis—the lusts of the flesh are nourished when the body is pampered.