Quotes About Desire

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.

I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.

Receiving involves feeling the way you feel once your desire has manifested.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.

My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.