DESIRE QUOTES V

quotations about desire

Through their proper knowledge
Creatures of Discernment forsake that Desire
Through which lustful creatures
Go to misfortune.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

URSULA K. LE GUIN

Lavinia


Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

RICHARD DAWKINS

The God Delusion


There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

BOB DYLAN

"Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar"


You had better return home and make a net, than go down to the river and desire to get the fishes.

CHINESE PROVERB


To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires,
My lot unequal to my vast desires.

JOHN ARBUTHNOT

"Know Yourself", A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot


Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

HARI DAS BABA

attributed, Be Here Now


While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


Forbid us something, and that thing we desire; but press it on us hard, and we will flee.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The Canterbury Tales


That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.

STEPHENIE MEYER

Breaking Dawn


Disdain to warm thee at lust's smoky fires,
Scorn, scorn to feed on thy old bloat desires:
Come, come, my soul, hoist up thy higher sails,
The wind blows fair; shall we still creep like snails,
That glide their ways with their own native slimes?

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems


After desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

BIBLE

James 1:15


What desire can be contrary to nature, since it was given to man by nature itself?

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Madness & Civilization


Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus


To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive."

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


Seen by himself, Desire appears the least well-favoured of the Gods: but when he is in Love's company, the two can hardly be distinguished.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


Two hearts fading like a flower
And all this waiting for the power
For some answer to this fire
Sinking slowly
The water is higher
Desire

RYAN ADAMS

"Desire", Demolition


Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

MARCEL PROUST

Remembrance of Things Past


I am still concerned with primitive desire, as it exists in man, but in the form in which man shows his affinity to his animal ancestors.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The Analysis of Mind