Quotes About Desire

I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

I choose life. I choose to eat, for I yearn for something more.

Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell

Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.

Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.

That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.

The blood is life... and it shall be mine!