DESIRE QUOTES VII

quotations about desire

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays


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

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

Think on These Things


The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

BABA HARI DASS

Ashtanga Yoga Primer


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


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


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

GASTON BACHéLARD

The Psychoanalysis of Fire


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


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


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

MARCEL PROUST

Remembrance of Things Past


Wishes people the world.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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


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

PAUL VERNON BUSER

attributed, Webster's Quotations


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


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


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


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


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"


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

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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


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