Quotes About Desires

I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.

Man's desires are greater than the earth. The end of his desires only ends with his end.

Il suo aspetto era brutto come le sue passioni.

Our world exists only to hold up this other world, this ideal world. It's the world of our dreams, our desires. It's elaborate, it's heavy, and we carry it around with us everywhere. But we don't mind. The more that's up here, the better. Because up here is where we keep all that's best in us. The more that's up here, the richer our imagination becomes. . . . Products are the materials we use to build our world above the world.

Contradictions stop only the people who stop and think about them, who stop to question the consistency of their various desires instead of simply forging ahead and fulfilling them all.

Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

I sang it as a gift to the audience, to the composer, to me. I sang it as a taunt to the Fates, too. I was weary of my fears as well as my desires, and so I sang it in simple defiance of all of it, even defying myself.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Ne smiješ željama profu?kati svoj život, Heather.

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.

I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.

I'd rather buy clothes than buy a bed.

When you're growing up you always like the commercials of the guys on the screen that you like watching.

I got everything I wanted from my parents: Brooks Brothers sweaters and Spalding saddle shoes.

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.