Quotes About Desire

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.

He had never even glimpsed her.

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

Every fear hides a wish.

They yearn for what they fear for.

I have no fear to burn my mouth and throat I'm ready to drink every flame and more.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too... So I think you need a little bit of both.

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear