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Desire Quotes - page 4
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Karl Kraus
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
Denis Diderot
Desire is half of life indifference is half of death.
Kahlil Gibran
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Stendhal
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
Henri Matisse
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Soren Kierkegaard
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
Mignon McLaughlin
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
Aristophanes
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Aristotle
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead the one being an innate desire of pleasure the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
Socrates
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
Gustav Stresemann
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.
Joseph Murphy
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
Anna Sui
The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Karl Menninger
I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance.
Fred Astaire
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams
Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn.
James Thurber
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
Graham Greene
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