Quotes About Desire

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

It seems to me now that true love is the only theme for either song or story.

So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.

Sometimes I wish that I could sing or dance or paint or compose symphonies or build cathedrals to express somehow what all of this means to me. I wish I were a priest or a robin or a child or a sunset.

Petit à petit, j'ai la impression que le goût de la lecture prend de plus en plus de place. Il me permet de me trouver seul avec une histoire, dans un coin du parc o sur mon lit. Ce que j'aime par-dessus tout, c'est cette possibilité que j'ai de m'arrêter, de revenir en arrière et de relire autant de fois que j'ai le désire.

The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.

It's not that I'm a Type?B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad scramble to have everything else.

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.