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Quotes About Desire

Siento tantas cosas..., y mi pasión por ella lo devora todo! ¡Tantas cosas! . . . ¡Y sin ella todo se reduce a nada!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
~ John Eldredge
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
One's only real life is the life one never leads.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.
~ Ovid
The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.
~ Wayne Dyer
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
~ John Gay
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
~ Khalil Gibran
I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.
~ Lauren DeStefano
That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.
~ Mason Cooley
Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
~ Alexander MacLaren
I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.
~ Alli Simpson
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
~ Barbara Kingsolver
In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.
~ Brandi Carlile
They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
~ Carl Hubbell
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
~ Hesiod
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
~ Hunter S. Thompson
You can't get what you want all the time in life.
~ Ice T
Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.
~ Jet Black
The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
~ Sigmund Freud
Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life.
~ Ruslana Korshunova