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Quotes About Desire

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
~ Anna Pavlova
There are so many things I could say about you but none of them can describe you fully. You are the beauty I was waiting for. The love of my life of whom I dreamed day and night.
~ Dalai Lama
Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.
~ Danielle LaPorte
It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.
~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
~ Walt Whitman
The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
~ Coco Chanel
I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.
~ Marina and the Diamonds
With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.
~ Peter Shepherd
And I hope you find it, what your looking for, and I hope it's everything you dreamed your life could be and so much more
~ Miley Cyrus
You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.
~ Philip Roth
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.
~ Rihanna
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.
~ Anne Sexton
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
~ Laozi
Life isn't all diamonds and rose... but it should be.
~ Lisa Vanderpump
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.
~ Marcel Proust
...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.
~ Deb Caletti
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
~ Epictetus
A hard man is good to find.
~ Mae West
Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem!
~ Rajneesh
You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
~ Sophia Loren
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.
~ Stephanie Mills
life is long between the desire and the spasm.
~ T. S. Eliot
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
~ Michel Houellebecq