Quotes About Desire

Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.

When you do dance, I wish youA wave o' the sea, that you might ever doNothing but that.

Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.

I love long life better than figs.

This is the very ecstasy of love.

I may command where I adore.

The horn, the horn, the lusty hornIs not a thing to laugh to scorn.

Why, she would hang on him,As if increase of appetite had grownBy what it fed on.

I will to EgyptAnd though I make this marriage for my peace,I' the East my pleasure lies.

William Shakespeare

A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife.

Hath his bellyful of fighting.

The kiss you take is better than you give.

From fairest creatures we desire increase,That thereby beauty's rose might never die.

Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

Love is a beautiful dream.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.

Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

Do not say, since He blessed us before we knew Him, He will again, irrespective of whether we bless him or not. This is a great mistake: He blessed us before we knew it in order that we might rise up to bless Him. He has shown His love towards us because He wants us to return it, which response on our part, apparently, is his greatest desire.