Quotes About Desire

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

Every desire has a relation to madness.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

Where progress is desire, change is Inevitable.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

Desire is proof of the availability.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.