Quotes About Desire

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

But what I want most of all is a normal life.

I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.

Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes