Quotes About Desire

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

They want what they don't need, or can't use, or won't ever make them whole.

She gazed at me, and in her eyes I found what it was I'd been searching for all along, searching for without understanding. Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, heart of my heart.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Norman. People who have things and people who want the things other people have. A day don't go by that there's not war somewhere in this world. A war to end all wars? That's like saying a disease to end all diseases. Only way that'll happen is when every human being on this earth is dead.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Norman. People who have things and people who want the things other people have.

Waiting for the warm affection of another human heart. Waiting to know the reason he has always felt like a soul alone in the universe. But this night, his waiting

A man's reach should exceed his grasp; else what's a heaven for? (Quote by Robert Browning)

Svajon?s išlaisvina.

I try not to want. I try instead to accept.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

He yearned for the words. It was an affliction, this constant clutching for words. It felt as if he had been excluded from a conversation.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed...

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.

More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

Sex is never between the lines. Between the sheets, yes, but not between the lines.

Who is rich? As the scholar Ben Zoma once said, 'He who is content with his lot.

For what was hope but a liar, preoccupied with the droughts of the past and the harvests of the future while it killed off the present with its bland blandishments?

The craving became almost unbearable, and he felt his heart break with the wanting.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

From Morning to Night keep Jesus in thy Heart, long for Nothing, desire Nothing, hope for Nothing, but to have all this within Thee changed into the Spirit and Temper of the Holy Jesus. Let this be thy Christianity, thy Church, and thy Religion.