Quotes About Desire

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.

It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have, probably, the [lower the] risk of causalities.