Desire Quotes

The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to desire their desires.

~ René Girard

The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers.

~ Anthony Marra

I'm a pusher dealing hope, at the intersection of Desire and Despair.

~ John Mark Green

But this time, so far as I can tell, my mother has not made her husband her desire incarnate, though she does love him very much. And for his part, so far as I can tell, he doesn’t try to talk her out of her self-deprecation, nor does he abet it. He simply loves her. I am learning from him.

~ Maggie Nelson

My biggest question was how to get rid of desire while going after your dreams? Dreams are desire in some way, shape or form. My answer is go after your dreams but don't get lost in your actions by staying present as often as possible.

~ Matthew Donnelly

The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.

~ Pema Chödrön

...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

~ Cassandra Clare

and yet…' he said, 'and yet, father, I am terribly afraid. I am afraid that the things the Landlord really intends for me may be utterly unlike the things he has taught me to desire.''they will be very unlike the things you imagine. But you already know that the objects which your desire imagines are always inadequate to that desire. Until you have it, you will not know what you wanted.

~ C.s. Lewis

Personal Responsibility is the individual desire to be in charge or in control of an action or situation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I wanted so much from her. I wanted her to help me understand the erratic and irrational way she made me feel. I wanted her to tell me why I could hardly breathe. I felt like I was drowning every time I saw her, yet I refused to look away. I wanted her to smile at me. I wanted her to keep me a prisoner of her captivating eyes for a little longer. I wanted her to lean closer to me for reasons I couldn't comprehend. I wanted her to stay here with me even though she made me so dangerously weak. I wanted so much from her, but more than anything, I wanted to know her.

~ P.i. Alltraine

Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Everything breaks down but desire. And because we are old, doctors try to shame that out of us. Young punks! Lose one's youth, and doctors take it as axiomatic that you've lost your mind, your balls.

~ Kiana Davenport

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

~ John Piper

And his left nipple was centimetres above my right eye. I wanted to lean my head back and lick it – not from desire but from that idiocy always there to subvert desire and render it ludicrous. Our human heat was a third creature bevelling between us.

~ Samuel R. Delany

Now, it so happens that our culture—or lack of it, for our culture is in a state of flux and crisis—places a high value on materialism, and, by extension, greed. Our culture’s emphasis on greed is such that people have become immune to satisfaction. Having acquired one thing, they are immediately ready to desire the next thing that might suggest itself. Today, the object of desire is no longer satisfaction, but desire itself.

~ Neel Burton

Desire isn’t appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join with the stars to inform the chaotic heavens with sense.

~ Samuel R. Delany

Well, your perfect erotic object remains only in recognition memory); and his absolute absence from reconstruction memory becomes the yearning that is, finally, desire. That socially surrounded absence, when you’re young, masks a lot of things in the real world; when you’re older and a few thousand sexual encounters have begun to clear what desire is about (or perhaps what really lies about desire) and you have begun to perceive desire’s edges, its effect is not so much that of an obliterator any more as it is that of a distorting lens. If you can smile at what you see through, it’s sometimes illuminating.

~ Samuel R. Delany

There was not a scrap of tangible evidence to show that he had spent the most wonderful year of his life with her.Which only increased his desire to remain faithful to her.

~ Milan Kundera

I do. I choose you, which is to choose him and the others and t

~ Jameson Fitzpatrick

God desires to use every believer to spread his kingdom everywhere in a grand manner.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you are a believer you are not supposed to begin to convince God to use you. God already desires to use you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

God so much desires to use you that he isn't thinking of using you just anyhow or somehow.

~ Sunday Adelaja

God desires to use you is to use you in the best possible fashion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

God desires to use you to the best of your capacity, to the best of your ability.

~ Sunday Adelaja

God desires to use you to the best of your to the best of your potentials.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you don't need what you really want, you can barely want what you really need.

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

The water of such a nation (living godly) will not fail. Talking of harmony between the people of the land and nature. Natural catastrophes and disasters shall be far from such a people. There shall be rain in its time, sun in its time. Nature will respond adequately to the needs and desires of such a people.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Anyone that does not wish or desire to stretch himself will get nowhere in this life. That is just the way life is.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There are so many ways of classifying our tendencies, but I think one of the most telling must be this: there are those of us who do not wrestle very often or for very long with our appetites, who can simply say, Enough, and walk away, and those of us who are constantly at odds with how much we desire and what we actually allow ourselves. The gay between desire and restraint: here rages the river of discontent, one that often threatens to overflow its banks.

~ Christine Sneed

Flavor factories churn out chemical desire. We spray, squirt, and inject hundreds of millions of pounds of those chemicals on food every year, and then we find ourselves surprised and alarmed that people keep eating. We have become so talented at soaking our food in fakeness that the leading cause of preventable death - smoking - bears a troubling resemblance to the second leading cause of preventable death - obesity.

~ Mark Schatzker

She was asked, “What do you see in him?”Taken aback, she replied, “What does he see in me?”Others too wondered why she chose him – not as handsome as the others, not one with a lot of possessions or even status, but little did they know, as little minds go, that she chose the one who wanted her most.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Women are the desire behind all dreams.

~ Debasish Mridha

Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The cook says, ‘As a young lass, I thought nothing as important as the love of a brave and ‘andsome man; now I’m an old crone, I know full well that it is, but only when he’s moneyed enough to keep you. The young may think they can live on sweet embraces but they won’t fill your belly – or not as you may be intending at any rate!

~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant

He is a man-beast, carnivore incarnate, motivated by carnal avarice and wearing only the mask of civility. She could sip from that cup. It is his presumption that deters her: his belief that he has already caught Maud in his paw.

~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant

What a woman tells her lover in desireshould be written out on air & running water.

~ Catullus

Goodness is funny because it draws you to it while curiously possessing you with the untrammelled desire to turn it into something bad.

~ Sophie Villalobos

God has unlimited resources. Ask him for what you desire.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

That’s not why I’m here. I’ve got a mission. I made a promise.” His chest expanded with a deep, ragged breath. “Ah, hell. Quit looking at me like you either want to shoot me or eat me up. I’m trying to do the right thing here.” Max’s rejection instantly sent her back to the times in her relationship with Richard when he’d rebuffed her advances. “I wasn’t very good, was I? I’m sor—” “Do not let that man come between us.” Max swiped his hand over his mouth and jaw and spun away. Just as quickly he faced her again and grabbed her wrist. “You call me whatever crass SOB you want to.” He pulled her hand to the front of his jeans and cupped it over the unmistakable warm bulge behind his zipper. “This is what you do to me. I don’t know why you and me fit together this good. If I could take you to bed right now and finish this, I would.” He released her and backed away, raising his hands in apology. “But that’s not what I’m here for. Neither one of us needs that kind of complication in our lives. I have to keep the mission in mind. I’m a cop. I have to think like a cop, not a...” “Not a what?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper. But he didn’t fill in the blank. “It’s not your job to deal with me. I’m damaged goods, Rosie. You can do better than me.

~ Julie Miller

Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.

~ James Rozoff