Quotes About Desire

Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.

To have and to want more that is life.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

I always tell people: Life is the dance between what you desire most and what you fear most. You've got to be able to deal with the threshold of control.

To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?

Doing what you want to do is life.

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

I came into this life, looked all around. I saw just what I liked and took what I found.

Sometimes it seems to me that that's all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.