DESIRE QUOTES VII

quotations about desire

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

STEPHENIE MEYER

Breaking Dawn


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

PAUL VERNON BUSER

attributed, Webster's Quotations


The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

Think on These Things


People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

No Country for Old Men


Wishes people the world.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


The busy mint
Of our laborious thoughts is ever going,
And coining new desires; desires not knowing
Where next to pitch; but, like the boundless ocean,
Gain, and gain ground, and grow more strong by motion.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems


To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

Blood Wedding


I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit,
I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit,
At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread,
But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.

BHARTRHARI

"Against the Desire of Worldly Things"


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

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus


Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters


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

MARCEL PROUST

Remembrance of Things Past


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

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan


I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you

AMY LOWELL

"The Letter", Pictures of the Floating World


You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed.

WILLIAM BRAXTON IRVINE

On Desire


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


We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

VIVEKANANDA

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda


Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan


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"


Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

GASTON BACHéLARD

The Psychoanalysis of Fire