Quotes About Desire

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

The power has to be in your desire to see everyone thrive.

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

We want more than there is.

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.

In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an inherent desire to attain balance.

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

When you are public figure, you're an athlete or actor, that is your job to speak out on certain things. I think you speak out on what you desire to speak out on or your passionate about.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another