Quotes About Desire

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

If through all thy discouragemnets thy condition prove worse and worse, so that thou canst not pray, but are struck dumb when thou comest into his presence, as David, then fall making signs when thou canst not speak; groan, sigh, sob, "chatter, "as Hezekiah did; bemoan thyself for thine unworthiness, and desire Christ to speak thy requests for thee, and God to hear him for thee.

What female heart can gold despise?What cat's averse to fish?

O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom moveThe bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.

Rather, the reason for our loving surrender to God is that we desire to be able to love as we are loved

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

But sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience.

So may I live no junctive law fulfilling, And my heart's table bear no woman's name.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter? Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

Give me romance, and I'll dispense With the rodomontade of common sense.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

We are unhappy, he explained, because we are slaves to our desires. Extinguish desire and suffering goes with it. If people could be taught that the physical or phenomenal world is illusion, then they would cease their attachment to it, thereby finding release from their self-destructive mental bondage.

Extinguish desire and suffering goes with it.

In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he was consistent: the wanted the best of everything, for himself and for his country.