Desire Quotes

It is not by means of a metaphor that a banking or stock-market transaction, a claim, a coupon, a credit, is able to arouse people who are not necessarily bankers. And what about the effects of money that grows, money that produces more money? There are socioeconomic complexes that are also veritable complexes of the unconscious, and that communicate a voluptuous wave from the top to the bottom of their hierarchy (the military-industrial complex). And ideology, Oedipus, and the phallus have nothing to do with this, because they depend on it rather than being its impetus. For it is a matter of flows, of stocks, of breaks in and fluctuations of flows; desire is present wherever something flows and runs, carrying along with it interested subjects—but also drunken or slumbering subjects—toward lethal destinations.

~ Gilles Deleuze

Anything that you could possibly imagine is already out there in another universe. If you are open to it, you can tap into all other realities for knowledge, strength, courage or whatever you need or desire.

~ Russell Anthony Gibbs

And there was born that so mysterious thing that we call 'love' between man and woman; the thing that transcends, uplifts, indeed is the sole enoblement of our act of lust.

~ Bryan Islip

What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated.

~ Jeffrey Fry

...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

~ Robin Hobb

She thinks of him lying there, the beautiful moment never arriving, never ruined, never disappointing, over. It must be sublime dwelling in that house of longing, forever poised on desire’s trembling tip, before everything is wrecked.

~ Susan Johnson

What if someone had the potential to discover a formula to unlock the mysteries of the universe wanted to become a pulp fiction writer? What if someone who had the potential to create unparalleled gastronomic delicacies had his heart set on civil engineering? There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

~ Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?

~ Robin Hobb

Persistent effort is what will create the life you most desire.

~ Steven Redhead

Create or attract through focused desire the things you wish for in life.

~ Steven Redhead

Our deepest (and fastest) yearnings can be tempered by reason and experience, our more prudent judgments softened by desire and need.

~ Kayt Sukel

And Chris remembers: what they used to talk about was desire. Impossible, longing dreams. Delirious, aching confusion. That was the vital element they lived off … because it was the one thing that mattered. Not things, or achievements, or politics, or fracking or anything else: just sweet naked blameless unending desire.

~ Paul Russell

The desires you aspire to need strong chains of intent.

~ Steven Redhead

Always ensure to keep focus on what you desire and not what others want you to focus upon.

~ Steven Redhead

If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.

~ Robin Hobb

...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

~ Robin Hobb

She was everything he'd ever wanted in a woman, and nothing he'd ever thought to find in a lady.

~ Eloisa James

desires are not killed by fulfilling them

~ Hermann Hesse

He was hers. To have and hold. Not forever, maybe--not forever, for sure--and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers. And he wanted her to touch him. He was like a cat who pushes its head under your hands.

~ Rainbow Rowell

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.

~ David Pietrusza

A stethoscope hears not the beating of a heart’s desire.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Look at the picture, Emma. Do you see his expression? He looks like he’s been waiting his whole life to find you and suddenly there you are.

~ Sarah Grimm

I figured out that I'm better off not explaining how and why I do the things that I do. If people can only read the surface of what you are, and that's all they want to see, let them see just what they need to see. Everything more is just something to keep and share only with the people that desire and are ready to receive that information. Words wasted on ears that do not listen and eyes that do not see are just seeds thrown on rocky ground. Prepare your ground first and then ask for the seeds.

~ Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache

I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.

~ Tan Redding

Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires--if he thinks correctly, and becomes a living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the Truth.

~ Ernest Holmes

All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn’t know you had (of one’s formative frustrations, and of one’s attempted self-cures for them); you wanted someone, you felt deprived of something, and then it seems to be there. And what is renewed in that experience is an intensity of frustration, and an intensity of satisfaction.

~ Adam Phillips

I realized that in refusing to take a vow man was drawn into temptation, and that to be bound by a vow was like a passage from libertinism to a real monogamous marriage. 'I believe in effort, I do not want to bind myself with vows' is the mentality of weakness and betrays a subtle desire for the thing to be avoided. Or where can be the difficulty in making a final decision? I vow to flee from the serpent which I know will bite me, I do not simply make an effort to flee from him. I know that mere effort may mean certain death. Mere effort means ignorance of the certain fact that the serpent is bound to kill me. The fact, therefore, that I could rest content with an effort only means that I have not yet clearly realized the necessity of definite action. 'But supposing my views are changed in the future, how can I bind myself by a vow?' Such a doubt often deters us. But that doubt also betrays a lack of clear perception that a particular thing must be renounced. That is why Nishkulanand has sung: 'Renunciaton without aversion is not lasting.' Where therefore the desire is gone, a vow of renunciation is the natural and inevitable fruit.

~ M.k Gandhi

Calina studied Nessa’s profile in the dim light of dawn. Her pulse raced as she formed a question in her mind. “Who do you want to be bothered by?”Calina felt like anything could happen in the silence that followed. It wrapped around Nessa and her, stifling the breath from her body and tightening her throat.Nessa shifted and turned so she was facing Calina. It was too dark for Calina to see Nessa’s eyes, but she could feel them wandering over her face.“You.” The word was exhaled from Nessa as if a great relief had washed over her. “I want to be bothered by you.

~ Heather Mcvea

I want you. And I usually get what I want. I had to wait too long to have you already.

~ Kelly Moran

. . . there are two types of fighters, the former strike all over the place hoping one would land, the latter, assured of their prowess and capabilities, hit once and destroy the opponent's desire to continue the fight

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

For once desire is articulated in words it does not sit still, but displaces, drifting metonymically from one thing to the next. Desire is a product of language and cannot be satisfied with an object.

~ Bruce Fink

How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It’s like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.

~ Camilla Gibb

Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possess is attraction. It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart.

~ Colleen Hoover

A man and a woman wanting each other is by far one of the least sinful things I've seen

~ Sierra Simone

When had I tamed myself? It had been a lengthy apprenticeship, begun when I was as young as ten, and continued relentlessly throughout my adolescence, when I had discovered to my own terror that I wanted to murder somebody: my father, a sarcastic friend, my professor of Latin and Greek, even a rude passerby. It was not until I was almost twenty that I began to suspect that, along with the repression of my violent impulses, I had repressed everything, even my ability to experience a profound emotion, even my impulse to do good deeds and help others. I had become as good as I had hoped to be, but good with the cautious detachment of one who never indulges in excess.

~ Domenico Starnone

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

~ Steve Almond

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Desire inspires us to be our very best.

~ Lynn Cullen

Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

If you are what you eat, then why aren’t you what you desire?Desire stands in the great no-man’s land of human activity: the zone of most conflict, fear, and anxiety. It scares us. We are often asked to hate it—by those who claim to have given it up for “better” things, and who often, hypocritically, haven’t.

~ Perry Brass