Quotes About Desire

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

I can change, but as we speak now, I really have zero desire to see my name in the press.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.

To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]

My desire to fight comes from within... it's a personal journey of accomplishment, not meant to be judges or for me to judge others.

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.

I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?