Quotes About Urge

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

We are formed by what we desire

desire is a beast that must be fed!

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .

I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...

It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

Among some tossed-out books of my daughter's which I rescued...was one too awful to live. I returned it to the trash, resisting the urge to say a few parting words. All day long the thought of its mingling with chicken bones and olive pits nagged at me. Half a dozen times I removed it and replaced it, like an executioner with scruples about capital punishment. Finally I put it on a high shelf where I wouldn't have to see it. Life imprisonment.

Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (1 PETER 2:11)

Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)

Successful artistic parents seem very rarely to give birth to equally successful artistic sons and daughters, and I suspect it may be because the urge to create, which must always be partly the need to escape everyday reality, is better fostered-- despite modern educational theory-- not by a sympathetic and 'creative' childhood environment, but the very opposite, by pruning and confining natural instinct.