Quotes About Desire

You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.

Of all the cars I've owned, I'd like still to have the Ferrari, the Porsche, the Alfa, the Lancia, the MG-TCs and the Fiat 850, but mostly I miss my Mini Moke.

Hungry bellies have no cars.

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

Winning is always fun, but the car is more important.

I aint sleepin when I say I'm in my dream car

You walked out of my dreams and into my car.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle.

The more you're obsessed by something, the better chance you have of achieving it.

I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?

I have dreams inside of me, and I have a chance to make them true.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.

I'm attracted to Ferraris and Bentleys, but I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to own one of those.

But i was high, when i finally had the chance to see, everything thats pretty aint' always good for me.

The underlying addiction is to this dream of lasting pleasure and comfort.

The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.

Thich Nhat Hanh says, "It's not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Less desire is the willingness to be lonely without resolution when everything in us yearns for something to cheer us up and change our mood. Practicing this kind of loneliness is a way of sowing seeds so that fundamental restlessness decreases.

Thinking that we can find some lasting pleasure and avoid pain is what in Buddhism is called samsara, a hopeless cycle that goes round and round endlessly and causes us to suffer greatly

the satisfaction that we get is very short-lived.

First, we like pleasure; we are attached to it. Conversely, we don't like pain. Second, we like and are attached to praise. We try to avoid criticism and blame. Third, we like and are attached to fame. We dislike and try to avoid disgrace. Finally, we are attached to gain, to getting what we want. We don't like losing what we have.