Quotes About Desire

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that's ok, because you can't afford it anyway.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.