Quotes About Desire

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one's least impressive qualities.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible.

If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

Whoever desires is always poor.

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind's knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I've placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

You must be able to see yourself, with your inner eye, already in possession of the good you desire.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.