Quotes About Desire

If you follow your passion, it will lead you to fulfillment.

If this is the only life, then why I'm not just doing everything I want to do.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Life is a beach, and these hoes try'na lay out

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.

If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.