Quotes About Desire

Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action

All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

When you make contact with your Higher Self, you'll have the support of Nature, which will allow for the manifestation of all you desire

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.