Quotes About Desire

What he wants is hard to say, but when he wants it, he wants it badly.

there is no such thing as perpetuall Tranquillity of mind, while we live here; because Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare." God had something better in store for the righteous in heaven, but here below it was all buffeting and collision, both outside our heads and in them.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves...

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

You must do what you want.

It's none of my business, but sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it. And if you couldn't buy it, then you would have to steal it.

It was strange how very bad men felt a need to live somewhere not just spectacular but slightly insane.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness,' says Antonio in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, a play I first saw at the RSC in 1971 with Judi Dench in the title role. But it's accepting that you will never achieve your ambition that can really drive you mad.

It was as if he had recognised how few pleasures he had in his life, making him all the more determined to cling on to the few that remained. Murder and cigarettes. That about summed him up.

When he thought about her, he no longer wanted to live.

I mentioned he had a cocaine habit. From what I'm told, that matters to him more.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

I wanted to be a psychiatrist.

I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.

You can go into a psychiatrist sometimes and just feel that this person's only role and their only desire is to write you a prescription, get a check and send you out the door.

I am a bit of a psycho when it comes to food.

The desire for romantic love in marriage is deeply rooted in our psychological makeup.