Desire Quotes

• There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Happiness
  • Graves
  • Gratification

• In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Desire
  • Despair
  • Nihilism

• It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Desire

• It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Energy

• ‎"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?

  

  S. J. Watson
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fear

• What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Fear
  • Travel
  • Habits

• It is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • Nature
  • Change
  • Wish

• Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Love
  • Hope
  • For Her

• The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • True
  • Science

• Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Wish
  • Road

• I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Society
  • Positive
  • Citizens

• A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Desire

• In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of the things they talk about is the desire to find 'the new pizza.' This means a new mass-market product that can be made quickly and eaten both on the premises and as a takeaway.

  

  John Lanchester
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Attention
  • Desire

• Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without 'taste,' at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Important

• What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • History
  • Hope
  • Door

• If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Opinions
  • Influenced

• Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Dream
  • Desire
  • Champions

• I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • May
  • Nature
  • Soul

• It wasn’t as direct as me saying 'I now make the choice to bring the paparazzi into my life.' I really said, 'I now make the choice to sleep with Jessica Simpson.' That was stronger than my desire to stay out of the paparazzi’s eye.

  

  John Mayer
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Sleep

• I do not want to go back to God with less knowledge than when I was born. I want my footprints to make an impress on the field of reason. I have no desire to be a cat and walk so lightly that it never creates a disturbance. I want my footprints to be plainly seen by all...

  

  Andrew Taylor Still
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Cat

• No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Up
  • Live
  • Heart

• In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. “We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom.

  

  Cesare Prandelli
  • World
  • Culture
  • Football

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