Quotes About Desire

We live in a gap between what we know we should do and what we feel we can do.

Materialism is KFC for the soul.

I have been around a lot of addiction in my life, and I knew what I was feeling—the addicted person's craving for the thing that numbs their nagging sense of hollowness.

My desire for a solution that was private and personal - the psychological equivalent of a pill - was in fact a symptom of the mindset that had caused my depression and anxiety in the first place.

Just as we are rescuing the sex drive from our subconscious and from shame, so we need to take the intoxication drive out into the open where it can breathe.

to focusing carefully on one thing at a time. As I learned all this, I realized that my desire to absorb a tsunami of information without losing my ability to focus was like my desire to eat at McDonald's every day and stay trim—an impossible dream.

Who does not love wine, women, and songRemains a fool his whole life long.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

How may I hate that which I love with such intensity of passion? How should I abhor that for which my every drop of blood is boiling?

Oh, diese Eifersucht ist noch viel unbegreiflicher als unsre Liebe, denn wir können doch nicht alle Weiber und Mädchen zu unserm Eigentum machen; aber das lüsterne Auge läßt sich keine Schranken setzen, unsre Phantasie ist wie das Faß der Danaiden, unser Sehnen umfängt und umarmt jeglichen Busen.«

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Lontani dall'oggetto amato sembriamo diventare, quanto più è intenso il nostro affetto, tanto più padroni di noi stessi, scaricando all'interno di noi tutta la violenza della passione che si dirigeva verso l'esterno; ma se la persona a cui credevamo di poter rinunciare si ripresenta all'improvviso ai nostri occhi con tutta la parvenza dell'irrinunciabile, allora veniamo rapidamente, subitaneamente strappati fuori dell'errore." - Le affinità elettive.

Io soffro molto, perché ho perduto ciò ch'era la sola voluttà della mia vita, la santa forza animatrice con cui cercavo mondi intorno a me. Essa non è più.

Love and desire are the spiritís wings to great deeds.

The Eternal Feminine draws us on.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!