Quotes About Desire

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

True life is elsewhere

When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.

I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide.

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.

You will lose what you value most... It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life. What you value most. It had been his soul.

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.