Quotes About Desire

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.

And so, although I have no lyre, I sing: For there is a desire, within me - a self-taught hymn

Yearning hurts, and what release may come of it feels much like death.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.

Es difícil luchar contra el ánimo de uno, pues aquello que se desea le cuesta a uno el alma

Never take a risk out of pride, impatience, or a desire to get it over with.

If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature—this and this alone constitutes living to live.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

Ik ben zo gek op sigaretten dat ik soms zin krijg om niet-rokers op hun bakkes te slaan.

Niet dat ik per se wil sterven, maar het zou helpen om het leven draaglijker te maken.

geef me nu eindelijk wat ik altijd al had

Ik heb het tijdelijke met het eeuwige vaak genoeg verwisseld in mijn poëzie om te weten dat ik het tijdelijke wil.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

He was just head over ears in love, with a young woman as near as his hand and as remote as a star, and for the moment it was enough to be where she was.

Bondage And Service - that was what they all demanded and from everyone. This craving to find themselves in another, to subjugate and appropriate foreign territory, to create a new field for their own will in a second body, foreign flesh for their own soul; this greedy, consuming hunger devoured every other desire, and they called it friendship!

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

The punishment of desire is the agony of unfulfillment