Quotes About Desire

Merely for safety, after fame we thirst, For all men would be cowards if they durst.

I knew that I had to free myself from any constraints that would prevent the pursuit of these dreams.

The basic fact is that all sentient beings, particularly human beings, want happiness and do not want pain and suffering.

parents everywhere desire a better life for their children. It's a near constant: They understand the importance of education and crave it for their children, even as they are well aware of the sacrifice they will have to make.

So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we're so concerned about what we want.

Among all of the powers and principalities, there is none on earth so mighty as a man's unsatisfied desire.

Kjærleiken er den ande som gjer at vi finst til Kjærleiken er den vande som vil og ikkje vil Kjærleiken er ei lykke og han er sorga di, han går der bak eit stykke og så går han forbi Kjærleiken er som lyset, det kjem og det forsvinn Kjærleiken er det gyset som seier tap og vinn

everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actually we're longing for God, because the human being is a continuous prayer, a person is a prayer through his or her longing...

The reason Agatha had never married was that when she was young and had the opportunities she hadn't felt the need, and later, feeling the need, she had no opportunities.

See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, … W. B. YEATS, "Sailing to Byzantium

Human nature is never satisfied.

One dream, will suffice a thousand nightmares.

You shall discuss dreams, not deny!

Today I want to leave the worldI want to leave the painLeave the heartacheI know where it is goingI want to see my Savior

To be held in his armsI long for that dayThe da that I get to seemore wonderful things

We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

I want six kids. We'll see how it goes, but I want a big family.

I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal.

I think I was always looking for that perfect woman, who obviously doesn't exist. I wanted to be married. I wanted more kids. I'm a family man, at heart.

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.