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Quotes About Desire

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.
~ John Lennon
I've always said I didn't have a Plan B in life. I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It's all about desire and passion. At all costs.
~ Mario Andretti
A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.
~ Ruth Gordon
How many things are there which I do not want.
~ Socrates
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
~ Solon
Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life.
~ Stuart Wilde
Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
~ Voltaire
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
~ Gillian Flynn
If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".
~ Gyles Brandreth
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
~ Jane Fonda
When you can live forever what do you live for?
~ Stephenie Meyer
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
~ Bryan Procter
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.
~ Dalai Lama
Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
~ Dante Alighieri
I wish I wasn't a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.
~ Francesca Lia Block
A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.
~ Plutarch
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
~ Oswald Chambers
We can't tell our life from our wish
~ Randall Jarrell
If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.
~ Alan Cohen
Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
~ Amy Hempel