DESIRE QUOTES X

quotations about desire

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Overruled


The man of desire needs the promise of reward to urge him to action. He is as a child working for the possession of a toy.

JAMES ALLEN

Byways of Blessedness


Natural desires are within bounds; but unnatural lust is infinite.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. LEWIS

Mere Christianity


God has given you these desires ... He gives us carnal love for a purpose, for mutual delight, to produce children, and the sanctification of the soul. Cast yourself headlong on God's love, begging His grace to help you in the perfection of the nature He gave you. To love another so deeply that we seek union with the beloved, by that to bring an immortal soul into this world and care for and shape it ... that is to imitate God Himself in His splendor!

S. M. STIRLING

The Sunrise Lands


Desire rules over men, those half-gods vain,
And is the tyrant of their heart and brain.

FERNAND GREGH

"Desire"


She's the candle burnin' in my room
Yeah, I'm like the needle
The needle and spoon
Over the counter, with a shotgun
Pretty soon, everybody's got one
I'm in a fever, when I'm beside her
Desire
Desire

U2

"Desire"


It would be helpful if the universe would give us one big clue, or a giant compass, if you will, pointing to the direction we should be taking. In fact, the compass is there. To find it, you need only look inside yourself to discover your soul's purest desire, its dream for your life.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire


When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


Venus, queen of soft desire,
Leading Hymen's happy choir.

ANACREON

"Ode XVIII", Odes


The best joke of all is to give someone just what they've wanted.

TONY BALLANTYNE

Recursion


Always there is desire,
only the shape
of what is desired shifts,
each love giving way to another.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"Lullabye"


Very often one “pushes away” the very thing that one most wants to grab, like a lover. This is a common, although distressing, psychological mechanism, having to do (in my opinion) with the fact that what is presented is not presented “purely”, that there is a little canker or grim place in it somewhere.

DONALD BARTHELME

"Rebecca"


The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The Journals of Soren Kierkegaard


If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

SIMONE WEIL

Gravity and Grace


There is a strange feeling of longing that I have always had, always a desire to be someplace better than where I am. But the world I want to enter is always disappearing before I get there.

LINDSAY AHL

Desire


If I cross the line
If I run this red light
I can't help myself
Gotta satisfy my desire

HOLLY VALANCE

"Desire", State of Mind


We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature has set none.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

SATYA SAI BABA

Sai Baba: Man of Miracles