Quotes About Desire

Love is only one fine star away.

Still desiring, we live without hope.

When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would be presented before in one view.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

I hope, or I could not live.

I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

What you hope for, you also fear.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.