Quotes About Desire

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

Happiness is not the portion of man.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

No one has a right to happiness.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

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.

I like "Talk to Her" by [Pedro] Almodovar and "Happiness" by Todd Solondz, "Mullholland Drive" by David Lynch .

Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

Happiness is a warm gun.