Desire Quotes

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

~ Tim Fargo

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

~ Idries Shah

I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind of man who would forsake his own desires in order to seek or preserve the acceptance of lesser men.~ Dave Champion

~ Dave Champion

I have a request to make,my lord.He held her gaze; she could see him trying to decide what she might ask, but eventually he surrendered.And that is?Take me to your bed.

~ Stephanie Laurens

Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?

~ Thomm Quackenbush

But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.

~ Oscar Wilde

Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and venomous—was enough to get her out again.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

You're going to want me, Simon, as much as I want you...and before you can have me...you're going to have to deserve me.

~ Gayle Eden

If you want to be mine;be of the divine,be of yourself.

~ Sidhartha

When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do.

~ Marty Rubin

His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour and makes it worthwhile. Desire is the original anarchist and undercover agent – no wonder people want it arrested and kept in a safe place. And just when we think we've got desire under control it lets us down or fills us with hope. Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all.

~ Hanif Kureishi

To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd

~ Jon R. Michaelsen

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

~ Tyra Banks

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?

~ Lila Abu-Lughod

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

~ Noah Levine

Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud.

~ Nenia Campbell

As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.

~ Richard Powers

Freedom looks beautiful and inspiring to those who desire & seek it, but Freedom looks like rebellion to those who have become complacent in hiding.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

She leans over the desk to write and even though I feel bad for doing it, I watch her body as she does. Her shirt lifts just a little as she’s bending over and whether she’s aware of it or not, her lower back is exposed. I’ve spent the last eight years ignoring this girl, but one small view of her back and it’s putting my body into overdrive. I’ve never wanted to kiss someone there so much in my life.

~ Melyssa Winchester

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

~ Charles Yu

My heart feels strong for you, my desire isn’t just to marry you and let this be our moment, Kiersten. I want to marry you and create a million moments every single day.

~ Rachel Van Dyken

But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

~ Jess C. Scott

All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately, Though they look like desires mental or sensory;- 39 -

~ Munindra Misra

The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

~ George Orwell

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

~ Virginia Woolf

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

[Dream] I do not want a grape.[Desire] I could make you want one.

~ Neil Gaiman

His proximity, that damn smile, just makes me hot in all the right places, but also pissed as hell. I don’t know if I should knee him in the balls or hump his leg like a bitch in heat.

~ Ghiselle St. James

He wanted to live life to the extreme, but without any mess or complications. He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

~ David Nicholls

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

~ Gary Shteyngart

When one's mind dwells on the objects of Senses, fondness for them grows on him, from fondness comes desire, from desire anger. Anger leads to bewilderment, bewilderment to loss of memory of true Self, and by that intelligence is destroyed, and with the destruction of intelligence he perishes.

~ Lord Krishna

When their eyes connected she tilted her head slightly…paused, and smiled. It was as if she needed to see him at a different angle to insure that her instant desire wasn’t a vanishing mirage

~ Carl Henegan

He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.

~ Sara Sheridan

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

~ John Connolly

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

~ G.k. Chesterton

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

~ Gary Shteyngart

A wish becomes a greatest desire at the very moment when a person's belief in the seemingly impossible is stronger than any doubt.-Kevin McNamara

~ S.l. Whyte