Quotes About Desire

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you; then create within your reality the things that you desire.

Mum, mum, He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

Ah love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Re-mold it nearer to the heart's desire!

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.

That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. ("Crépuscule du désir")

And our desire to knowEach other and desertEach other for newCenters of meaning so thatThe boundaries may reignAnd in doing so be undone.

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

My whole desire is to burn myself away.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

Trapped in infernoIt blazed brighter than the sunHis desire for her

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

Thirst is a language even the grass understands.

However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

While a man desires a woman, His mind is boundAs closely as a calf to its mother.As you would pluck an autumn lily, Pluck the arrow of desire.

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment.