DESIRE QUOTES II

quotations about desire

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Hell's Angels


Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby, edgy and dull
And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul.
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head.
Only you can cool my desire.
I'm on fire.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"I'm on Fire", Born in the U.S.A.


Given a desire for s, the fact that x-ing would increase the likelihood of s constitutes a reason for x-ing.

ROBERT M. GORDON

"The Circle of Desire"


Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

ARISTOTLE

Physica


You taught me the ways of desire, now it's takin' its toll
You're the right kind of sinner, to release my inner fantasy

PAT BENATAR

"Heartbreaker"

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'Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1751


All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

CHARLES BUXTON

Notes of Thought


Desires satisfied are but as seeds sown a second time.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


The more you want, the more you stand to lose.

AESOP

Fables


Long only for what you have.

ANDRÉ GIDE

The Fruits of the Earth


When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.

WILLIAM BRAXTON IRVINE

On Desire


In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

GRAHAM GREENE

"May We Borrow Your Husband?"


The dead are happy, having no desire.
I rise and fall, and rise and fall again,
Something is in me, famishing for bread,
Baffled and unappeasable as fire.

ARTHUR SYMONS

"Soror Tua"


Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

WILLIAM BRAXTON IRVINE

On Desire


I can tell you at any rate how to get what you want. You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eye wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal--the truest thing in Scripture is about Lot's wife.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

Septimus


By the destruction of his Cravings,
This monk hath extinguished Hunger, and hath attained Nirvana.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


Things desired are oftentimes of less value than our present possessions.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.

SYLVIA PLATH

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath


We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.

RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

The Squire of Low Degree--The Princess Answers


Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

WILLIAM BLAKE

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell