Quotes About Desire

I've always been a sucker for attention.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Anything I want comes into place.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want.

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

You have to know what you want to get it.

Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.