Desire Quotes
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It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.
William Landay
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The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.
David A. R. White
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We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.
Edith Stein
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It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.
Anouk Aimee
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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
John Cleese
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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
Jacques Maritain
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“Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses; which revived her spirits a litle.”
Apuleius
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My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Janine Turner
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As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
E. B. White
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There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.
Arthur C. Clarke
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My initial desire to blog came from something that's always been my approach to investing - I'm a nerd, and I love to play with the technology, and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.
Brad Feld
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Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
Patrick Henry
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I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
Lisa Bonet
