Desire Quotes


I want to die on Mars, just not on impact. Elon Musk Desire 261
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray. George Muller Desire 175
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. John Berger Desire 166
Ultimately it is the desire not the desired that we love. Friedrich Nietzsche Desire 135
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? William Shakespeare Desire 100
She wanted to be the rain to cover him with moisture to bring life to his seed. Caris Roane Desire 100
Essential to life is desiring the things that you need than needing the things you desire. Anthony Liccione Desire 100
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. Brendan Francis Desire 99
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. William Blake Desire 96
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. Anne Boleyn Desire 94
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all mans slavery Paramahansa Yogananda Desire 94
free from desire you realize the mystery caught in the desire you see only the manifestations. Lao Tzu Desire 94
Things are sweeter when theyre lost. I knowbecause once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly Dot and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand. F. Scott Fitzgerald Desire 92
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil. Amit Abraham Desire 92
Eros again now the loosener of limbs troubles me Bittersweet sly uncontrollable creature. Sappho Desire 90
Its precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament. Fyodor Dostoevsky Desire 90
As a general rule desire is always marketable we dont do anything but sell buy exchange desires. . . . And I think of Bloys words there is nothing perfectly beautiful except what is invisible and above all unbuyable. Roland Barthes Desire 89
The desire to write grows with writing. Desiderius Erasmus Desire 87
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this. C. S. Forester Desire 86
I have never killed anybody it is true but it is because I lacked the courage or the time not because I lacked the desire Eduardo Hughes Galeano Desire 83
Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do. Lisa Leslie Desire 81
I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready. William Kidd Desire 80
My desire is to walk with God every day. Janine Turner Desire 80
Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. Paulo Coelho Desire 78
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them the depth of field minimal their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. Michael Ondaatje Desire 78
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. Marilynne Robinson Desire 77
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever. Arthur Keith Desire 76
The world is always greater than your desires plenty is never enough. Aleksandar Hemon Desire 74
The desire to be desireless is but another desire. The thought that because this desire purports to be spiritual it is superior to more mundane desires shows how skilled the mind is at justifying any desire it is attached to. Joel Kramer Desire 74
Have you ever wanted to be somebody else Today I fantasized about being my own identical monozygotic twin. How cool would that be I could both be me and yet be someone completely different. Jarod Kintz Desire 74
When a person truly desires something all the Universe conspires to help that person realize his dream. Paulo Coelho Desire 72
My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction. Janine Turner Desire 71
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. Dawson Trotman Desire 70
Wonder is the desire for knowledge. Thomas Aquinas Desire 69
Every man makes a god of his own desire. Virgil Desire 66
When we kill our desires we stink like any corpse. Harold Norse Desire 65
It was so much easier when I didnt want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel. David Levithan Desire 65
When you were a wandering desire in the mist I too was there a wandering desire. Then we sought one another and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless and dreams were space without measure. Kahlil Gibran Desire 64
The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play. Drew Bledsoe Desire 64
We dont just want what we want because we want it we want what we want because thats what weve learned to want. Hanne Blank Desire 62
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what were afraid of is about the width of an eyelash. Jay McInerney Desire 62
Love is the castle doubt is the moat desire is the paddle and hope is the boat. Kellie Elmore Desire 61
If you desire ease, forsake learning. Nagarjuna Desire 59
Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on. Beau Bridges Desire 58
Habit is the intersection of knowledge what to do skill how to do and desire want to do. Stephen R. Covey Desire 57
Kiss me. My lips are on fire. You my friend are the object of my secret desire. Lisa Canfield Desire 57
I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water. Faraaz Kazi Desire 57
If you dont get everything you want think of the things you dont get that you dont want. Oscar Wilde Desire 57
Desire is half of life indifference is half of death. Kahlil Gibran Desire 56
It always rains on the unlovedwet dreamsa fishing expeditionshe kisses wyverns the disneyland analogydinner etiquette and chocolate loversdesire swears by the first circlethings are changingwhat can possibly go wrong Neil Gaiman Desire 55

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