Quotes About Desire

When a really great dream shows up," Page later said, "grab it!

A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills

There is in all humans, however, a desire and a deeply felt duty to worship a more intimate God

There is apparently, here and there on earth, a kind of continuation of love where this greedy desire of two persons for each other has given way to a new craving and greed, a common higher thirst for an ideal that stands above [über] them: but who knows this love? who has experienced it? Its true name is friendship [FW 14].

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger. It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body.

Not for the first time in my life I had made it to the top. For some reason this made me hanker for a chili dog with chopped onions under a blanket of processed American cheese.

It's hard for a man to understand a woman because a man just desires her; but women, most of them anyway, desire desire.

It's a disheartening feeling when you can't stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away.

Her name was Alana Ash, and she was everything a happily married man could want in a prostitute.

And then there was Marella Herzog, a woman with a dog whistle that could call out the beast in me. I felt that if I could spend a week in her company I might grow back a full head of hair.

If the river were whiskey and I was a diving duck . . .

Men and women search for love, find it, and then wake up one morning to the harsh reality that the cap was left off and the precious passion has dried up.

All great masters in any line think positive thoughts, which they put into action with intensive desire tested and tempered by balanced judgement.   All

Mientras la ambición y las ansias de poder gobiernen el corazón de algunos hombres, no habrá paz duradera en la tierra. La guerra, por desgracia, es condición humana.

Sleep, like other earthly blessings, is niggard of its favours when most courted.

Take a pinch of belief in God, add a dash of desire to experience God, stir in emotion to taste, and you have a recipe for religious experience.

My truest desire is fellowship with good friends, the love of a caring family, and a close relationship with God.

The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

It is not greed that drives the but envy.

All the time, I was telling myself, just enjoy it for what it is, don't be weird, don't get all screwed up over something it isn't. The usual mantra when you're with someone who you're not really with and desperately want to be. Have you noticed how telling yourself all that shit never actually helps?

He tried to close a hand around the precious coffee but had to jerk his fingers away, sharply enough that his wrist popped painfully. Tallow wondered if the other end of the coffee machine was slurping water out of a lake in Hell.