Quotes About Desire

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.

Hope can make people do terrible things.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.

She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.

There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.

Delusive hope still points to distant good.