Quotes About Desire

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

What can possibly be the common factor in a Kim Jee-woon film? I think what really ties a lot of my projects together is that there is always a character that believes his life is not exactly the way he wishes it to be.

Everybody wishes they were better at golf.

I try not to judge my characters. If I'm looking at it from the outside, I'd say, 'No, she's not really a great mother.' But she wishes she were, and she wants to be, and she still has instincts toward protecting her son and wanting him to be a happy person.

You know that genie where you get three wishes? One that has never changed for me is I would like to sing, and move an audience through song.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.

Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.

Before I moved to the city I spent every Saturday sitting in church wishing I could be living on my own, doing what I wanted.

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.

Everyone seems to be rushing through their lives, wishing they had just two minutes to do all the things they want to get gone.

I really relate to the feeling of falling in love 10 times a day and wishing I could never stop falling in love.

I would love to draw for 'Scarlet Witch,' it's a Marvel title.

I wanted to be a witch so badly when I was younger.

My heart's desire was freedom... 400 years ago they'd have burned me as a witch or dunked me like a big biscuit.

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.