Quotes About Desire

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

There is nothing ridiculous in love.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.