DESIRE QUOTES VII

quotations about desire

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan


There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

PLATO

The Republic


But how long before this desperate wickedness overruns the qualms of good people? Before the desire for the smell of cooking meat, the softness of flesh, breaks us all?

CHRIS ABANI

Hands Washing Water


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"


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

BIBLE

James 1:15


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


Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

VIVEKANANDA

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda


She's the dollars
She's my protection
Yeah, she's the promise
In the year of election
Ah, sister, I can't let you go
I'm like a preacher stealing hearts in a traveling show
For the love or money, money
Desire
Desire

U2

"Desire", Rattle and Hum


Desire is oft the morning star of Love,
And Love the Hesper of fulfilled Desire.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

GEORGE ELIOT

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story


The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd
Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems


We are the mediocre,
we are the half givers,
we are the half lovers,
we are the savourless salt.

Break the hard crust
of complacency.
Quicken in us
the sharp grace of desire.

CARYLL HOUSELANDER

attributed, Soul Weavings


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

SAMUEL JOHNSON

The History of Rasselas


He is fortunate who wants the things he knows he can have.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


Wishes people the world.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

COVENTRY PATMORE

The Rod


Sex ... or lack thereof ... is at the center of everyone's identity, and once you've cracked someone's desires, you understand them in full.

ARIANNE COHEN

Marie Claire Magazine, March 2008


I surrender all control
To the desire that consumes me whole
And leads me by the hand to infinity
That lies in wait at the heart of me

DEPECHE MODE

"Higher Love"


Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

PAUL VERNON BUSER

attributed, Webster's Quotations


Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

MARCEL PROUST

Within a Budding Grove