Quotes About Desire

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

I would be glad to worship success if I could find her.

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain anything you really desire.

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.

To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth — that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man.

Dove troverete, ditemi, un amore simile al mio, un amore che né il tempo, né la lontananza, né la disperazione possono spegnere; un amore che si accontenta di un nastro smarrito, di uno sguardo perduto, di una parola sfuggita?

Like all primitive natures, she adored everything that appealed to her eyes and her ears.

You must needs have wished to die, to know how good it is to live.

d'Artagnan wished to stop the young woman, seize her and gaze upon her, were it only for a minute; but quick as a bird she glided between his hands, and when he wished to speak to her, her finger placed upon her mouth, with a little imperative gesture full of grace, reminded him that he was under the command of a power which he must blindly obey, and which forbade him even to make the slightest complaint.

Beneath passion and beyond pleasure, there is always a trace of remorse.

Avoir commis, pour te posséder, rapt, violence et adultère, et, pour te conserver, hésiter devant un nouveau crime ?... perdre mon âme pour si peu ? Satan en rirait ; tu es folle ... Non ... non, tu es à moi comme l'homme est au malheur ....

Alas, alas!' Andrea said, with a sigh. 'One can never be completely happy in this world.

But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire. They fear the ear that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.

Now, to follow out this reasoning, what is the marvellous?—that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire?—that which we cannot obtain.

But, alas, I have heard it said that hearts inflamed by obstacles to their desire grew cold in time of security;

One easily believes what one desires.

Valentine, est-ce là tout ce que vous avez dans l'âme? Quoi! je vous engage ma vie, je vous donne mon âme, je vous consacre jusqu'au plus insignifiant battement de mon cÅ"ur, et quand je suis tout à vous, moi, quand je me dis tout bas que je mourrai si je vous perds, vous ne vous épouvantez pas, vous, à la seule idée d'appartenir à un autre!