Desire Quotes

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

~ Jane Smiley

On the third day Vera said:'I love your body because it is beautiful. But I do not know your soul. I do not know whether there is a soul. Nor is it necessary for me because your body is beautiful.But everything is mutable and you will grow old. At first your face will grow old. Your body will live longer. An old face will be a mockery before a youthful body. And then a wasted body will be a mockery to ravenous desires.This is like the dead light of the setting sun which from the clouds above was reflected in the water... feeble and full of disillusion.Should I not kill you so that I might always possess you for myself.'And Vera became terrifying.I found this unpleasant.But from these words I understood that she had decided upon the day.(Thirty-Three Abominations)

~ Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

~ Deepak Chopra

With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and which he had never noticed before, when he was a minister. Now of course, after he's been released, he doesn't notice the birds anymore, just as beforehand. In the same way you won't notice Moscow, when you actually live there.

~ Anton Chekhov

Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses, which revived her spirits a litle.

~ Apuleius

What', said he, ' makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every beast that strays beside me has the same corporeal necessities with myself; he is hungry and crops the grass, he is thirsty and drinks the stream, his thirst and hunger are appeased, he is satisfied and sleeps; he rises again and is hungry, he is again fed and is at rest. I am hungry and thirsty like him, but when thirst and hunger cease I am not at rest; I am, like him, pained with want, but am not, like him, satisfied with fullness. The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy; I long again to be hungry that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves where they sit in seeming happiness on the branches, and waste their lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds. I likewise can call the lutanist and the singer, but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me today, and will grow yet more wearisome tomorrow. I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man has surely some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.

~ Samuel Johnson

I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.

~ Rachel Cusk

If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water.

~ Simone Weil

Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn't a bad thing. It's when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise.

~ Taite Adams

When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.

~ Marty Rubin

There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.

~ Steve Goodier

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

He was looking at her with that intense blazing gaze – the one that made her feel she was the only woman in the world. Oh God, don’t let him get to her. She’d tried to raise her defences against him, but he was so very attractive – almost irresistible. It would be easy to admit defeat…

~ Emily Arden

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Sometimes what we lack is the thrill of anticipation or the delay of gratification. We enjoy things far more when we've really desired them but had to wait for them. The real value is found in our self control and patience, which allows us to delay gratification and build anticipation. Letting desire build is an abstract way to achieve balance and moderation in your life... Moderation just may be the answer to boredom - go figure! -- pg 145-146

~ Cristin Frank

The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God’s standards.

~ Jim George

He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear of its own fulfilment, with the mysterious shiver felt when something endlessly desired suddenly comes physically close to the astonished heart.

~ Stefan Zweig

How much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve the level of success you desire?

~ Sherman Morris

Let me tell you what I want,' he said fiercely. 'For a start, I want you. I told you that, but perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I want the whole package, hang-ups, fears and phobias, as well as the good parts.

~ Joanna Mansell

If we don't currently have what we so desire, then we must become a different person. Beliefs and thought patterns is the road to victory.

~ Matthew Donnelly

He is insatiable in love. His wife is a great cook.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

When we free ourselves from desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

~ Guatama Buddha

90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials.

~ Auliq Ice

Think of it. Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat.

~ Stephen Kiernan

Love is the essence of life,Love is the universal language of all creation,Love is the eternal desire,Love is the life's flower with fragrance to share,So feel the longing for love and being beloved.

~ Debasish Mridha

In Freud’s story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we can’t let ourselves feel our frustration – and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do – we can’t get a sense of what it is we might be wanting, and missing, of what might really give us pleasure.

~ Adam Phillips

Over the boundary of time,Hope transcends,Desire sings,One verse,One song,And that is the song of happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.

~ Debasish Mridha

As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless.

~ Debasish Mridha

The desire to learn is valuable, but the desire for an education is priceless.

~ Debasish Mridha

To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.

~ Debasish Mridha

To teach, ignite the fire of desire to learn.

~ Debasish Mridha

There's the good girl leading a charmed life who secretly covets to be the rare and elusive femme fatale and the femme fatale who yearns to be good and then there is their nemesis - men who dream and desire both.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

When a desire is deep, it reaches the subconscious mind and calls for cultivation of qualities that will help fulfill desires, and this is what transforms an ordinary person into a great leader.

~ Awdhesh Singh

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

~ Rabih Alameddine

..... desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.

~ Ilsa J. Bick

There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it.What our contempts doth often hurl from us,We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,By revolution lowering, does becomeThe opposite of itself. She's good, being gone.The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.

~ William Shakespeare

Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .

~ Sameh Elsayed