Desire Quotes

Nothing won't change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance.

~ Anthony Liccione

As our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

When you want something badly enough it’s amazing what you’ll ignore.

~ Sara Sheridan

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

~ Sara Sheridan

Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, The one who asked me to and meant it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.

~ Mohsin Hamid

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

~ Christa Wolf

For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age.And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong.

~ Alyssa Urbano

There are people who feel they should be with you, but something is preventing them from coming close. Please can you just lower the frequency of your stern looking face and smile...and they will make you their habit.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

~ Walter Raleigh

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

~ Gautama Buddha

My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the present. Let it not overcome me, my God. Let not flesh and blood conquer me. Let not the world and its brief glory deceive me, nor the devil trip me by his craftiness. Give me courage to resist, patience to endure, and constancy to persevere. Give me the soothing unction of Your spirit rather than all the consolations of the world, and in place of carnal love, infuse into me the love of Your name.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.

~ Richard Courant

Maura looks stunned, as though she's been slapped. What about me? Don't you trust me? She gives a hysterical little laugh. Tears are gathering in her blue eyes. Let me guess: you think I'm reckless. 'Too easily ruled by my emotions,' Elena said. As though feeling things too deeply -- wanting more for myself and girls like us -- is so terrible!

~ Jessica Spotswood

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Don't you know there's another bubble as well? An expectations bubble. Bigger houses, private planes, yachts... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well, as all bubbles do.

~ Edward Rutherfurd

All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves.

~ Jag Randhawa

Appetite knows what it craves, without cerebral embellishment. It tends not to waste any time laying hold of its tools. That was the thing I had recognised here: appetite. I recognised it precisely because, in a context like this, it was so unfamiliar. It had forced me to rule out everything else. And there was a second reason for my recognition, which because unprecedented was not recognition at all, but astounding discovery: Martha's face told me. I saw appetite there...

~ Susan Choi

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

~ Kate Elliott

I will not exorcise you—I’d miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair

~ John Geddes

A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

~ William Faulkner

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

~ Gustave Flaubert

To live in the shadow of another person...to desire to be adored as that person is....is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.

~ Faye Hall

Do you know what pains me the mostabout you? Do you?Having all of thatbottled up insideof your soulall of those dark secretsthat you will notlet escape your heart.Love is the only thing that will heal you. Let me LOVE you. Please.

~ Zuky Rose Leigh

burnt by the sunof your mouth, I’m unable to speak or paint you with words

~ John Geddes

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You might say that S. has only himself to blame, that it is entirely his choice to fight this fight, to live a life of vigilant somnolence or somnolent vigilantism, to allow himself to be satisfied with Sola in the margins of his manuscripts instead of in his arms, and you might be right. But you ought to understand, too, that there's an attrition that takes place inside, one in which options and choices and even desires are ground ever smaller until finally their existence can no longer be confirmed by observation or weight or displacement but only by faith. Until desire is a ghost.

~ Doug Dorst

There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions.

~ Mark A.r. Kleiman

Fox Jung...I dunno why I get so hungry whenever I see you. Just once...if I could swallow you up in one bite, just once...I'd never need anything else.Now, I'm really scared...that one day, I'll open my eyes and find myself inside your stomach.

~ Hajin Yoo

But often, in the world's most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspeakable desireAfter the knowledge of our buried life;A thirst to spend our fire and restless forceIn tracking out our true, original course.

~ Matthew Arnold

As Raimon and Desire listened, Aimeric sang of Carenza's beauty. He sang of the oaths he had given to his lord, the count Bertran, and of another oath, one that he had sworn to Countess Carenza in his heart. He would keep her at the forefront of his thoughts, he would cherish her forever. They would never satisfy their desire, never even kiss one another, but he would be faithful to her until he died.

~ Lisa Goldstein

All that pent up longing,” he says, “all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs.

~ Justin Torres

Raimon was amused to see that the countess Carenza grew more beautiful by the day: her expression has softened and the pouches under her eyes had disappeared. She carried herself confidently, secure in the knowledge that she was fascinating to one pair of eyes at least.

~ Lisa Goldstein

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

~ John Dufresne

Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you

~ Sean Thomas Dougherty

If you must chase make certain its with passion so you may reap a worthy reward.

~ Eyob M. A.

When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace. An unmortified man is quickly tempted and overcome in small, trifling evils; his spirit is weak, in a measure carnal and inclined to sensual things; he can hardly abstain from earthly desires. Hence it makes him sad to forego them; he is quick to anger if reproved. Yet if he satisfies his desires, remorse of conscience overwhelms him because he followed his passions and they did not lead to the peace he sought.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Only those who are in-charge are tackled and criticized by others so criticism is something desirable and should not be resented.

~ Emmanuel Moore Abolo

Plants cannot stay safe. Desire for light spools grass out of the ground; desire for a visitor spools red ruffles out of twigs. Desire makes plants very brave, so they can find what they desire; and very tender, so they can feel what they find.

~ Amy Leach