Quotes About Desire

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.

You don't need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.

Every heart desires a mate.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

Habit is stronger than desire.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!