Quotes About Desire

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

...for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews

All envy is proportionate to desire.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.