Quotes About Desire

I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon—the potential of bacon—gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.

To hope is not to demand.

I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as though it had been coaxed out by a whispered promise.

Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.

We are, each of us, hopeless hopers.

When i dream, i see the Hope. When i see the Hope, i am the dream.

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

Desire is inspired by motivation, which gives us hope to believe in ourselves that we can set goals and pursue them successfully.

He who has no dreams has no hope and thus lives in a hell of his own making - rjs

Oh sky...I won't ask so much as to become the sun or the moon, just one of the stars in between...

The universe would give you whatever you wanted if you twisted its arm hard enough.

At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was possibly hope - that the good fortune of others might one day be hers

I wouldn't have wished for something hoping that I wouldn't get it. I wouldn't have wished for it knowing that I'd get it

Everybody lives for something better to come.

Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.

Hope is but the dream of those that wake.

I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing you will never get it.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.