Quotes About Desire

I just want to love God.

If Lakshmi, goddess of wealth, one day favours me bountifully, Oxford is fifth on the list of cities I would like to visit before I pass on, after Mecca, Varanasi, Jerusalem and Paris.

They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.

There is in human nature a hunger and a thirst for the transcendent and the divine which cannot be satisfied with anything less than God.

I move.. I am.. I want ...I take.. I see ..I learn I grow ...I make

for Continental philosophy, the idea of consciousness and of an independent self-agency is ultimately a useless fantasy that boils down to an impossible desire for self-control – because it is impossible for us to know all that goes on in the mind at any one time.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

A satisfação depende de pegar o que se quer, em vez de esperar pelo que é justo receber. Tudo isto entra na linguagem cotidiana que liga sexo à agressão...

In a simpler time, advertising merely called attention to the product and extolled its advantages. Now it manufactures a product of its own: the consumer, perpetually unsatisfied, restless, anxious, and bored. Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.

Human love…it is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Judge you the rest; being tired she bade me kiss;Jove send me more such afternoons as this!

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Make me immortal with a kiss.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!

The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, give her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.

Y como todo lo demás que amamos en esta vida -todo aquello que, sentimentalmente, llamamos nuestras "pasiones" y "deseos"-, es realmente una necesidad ancestral codificada. Todos nacimos para correr; todos nacimos porque podemos correr. Todos somos La Gente que Corre, como siempre han sabido los tarahumaras.

I didn't love running, but I wanted to.

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.