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Quotes About Desire

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.
~ Kathy Bates
The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.
~ Ernest Holmes
When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
To die of yearning for something you will never experience
~ Alessandro Baricco
Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.
~ Roger von Oech
To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.
~ Gerald May
The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
~ Alicia Keys
No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?
~ Jeffrey Kluger
A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.
~ Alex Comfort
Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more
~ Linda Howard
All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.
~ David Emerald Womeldorff
Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.
~ Darcey Steinke
The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.
~ Ned Rorem
I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.
~ Alexander Ludwig
I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."
~ Erich Fromm
Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.
~ Sohrab Vossoughi
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.
~ Frederick Lenz
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
~ Terence McKenna
sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.
~ Lena Dunham
For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.
~ Louise Hay
My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.
~ Marilyn Manson
The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.
~ Martha Beck
It is easy to despise what you cannot get
~ Aesop