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Quotes About Desire

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
~ Milan Kundera
We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life.
~ Audrey Hepburn
We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
~ John Eldredge
I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.
~ Lewis Carroll
There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.
~ Max Lucado
If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.
~ Dwayne Johnson
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
~ Jacques Prévert
What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.
~ Miranda July
When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.
~ Wayne Dyer
Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
~ Anthony Hopkins
When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
~ Byron Katie
You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
~ Hanif Kureishi
I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.
~ Hugh Hefner
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
~ Amy Sedaris
When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.
~ Brian Tracy
It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.
~ C. S. Lewis
There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
All my life, I've dreamed in gold.
~ Misty May-Treanor
Don't say I gotta do anything in life. There is nothing you gotta do. But I want to.
~ Moe Norman
We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.
~ Noah Levine