Quotes About Desire

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that inspired Dickens to write his immortal novels. This desire inspired Sir Christoper Wren to design his symphonies in stone. This desire made Rockefeller amass millions that he never spent! And this same desire made the richest family in your town build a house far too large for its requirements. T

Nada há que eu necessite tanto como estímulos para minha vaidade".

the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature;

All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me.

Long they stood together, peering over the gray unresting water. John, she said, does it make every one—unhappy when they study and learn lots of things? He paused and smiled. I am afraid it does, he said. And, John, are you glad you studied? Yes, came the answer, slowly but positively. She watched the flickering lights upon the sea, and said thoughtfully, I wish I was unhappy,—and—and, putting both arms about his neck, I think I am, a little, John.

Four things make life worthy to most men: to move, to know, to love, to aspire.

It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.

Her bottom is so beautiful that once as she crossed the room to the cooler I felt my eyes smart with tears of gratitude.

Here was an oddity: that in the latter days when laymen owned everything they didn't care much for anything, yet some priests who owned little or nothing developed ferocious attachments for ordinary objects—I once knew a monk who owned nothing, had given it all away for Christ, yet coveted the monastery typewriter with a jealous love, flew into rages when another monk touched it.

own death is what you really love and won't be happy till you have, what then? Then we'll know, won't we?

Gentilly is swept fitfully by desire and by an east wind from the burning swamps at Chef Menteur.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.

You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. Whatever

sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need.

He said he wanted a Happy Meal.

Mine is a story of craving. Each memory makes me a child again.

Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.

He who goes questing for what he wants may discover, along the way, what he needs.

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

This is the female form, vapor, A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot, It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction, I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it, Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heavaen or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filament, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable...