Quotes About Desire

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

Trying your best is bringing your best... that's the way to do it! Desire and passion is everything.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.