Desire Quotes - page 4

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. (Rumi)
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! View quote
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. View quote
Denis Diderot
Desire is half of life indifference is half of death. View quote
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. View quote
Stendhal
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. View quote
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. View quote
Henri Matisse
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. View quote
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. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
All men desire to be immortal. (Theodore Parker)
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole. View quote
Aristophanes
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. View quote
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. View quote
Socrates
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Joseph Murphy
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. View quote
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. View quote
Karl Menninger
Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness. (Mahatma Gandhi)
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. View quote
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. View quote
John Adams
Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn. View quote
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. View quote
Graham Greene
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