Desire Quotes

Desire is poison.

— Mahabaratia

To want is more than to attain.

— Georgiana Goddard King

Let reason govern desire.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Dare to desire, dare to do.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Life is a desire!”

— Deyth Banger

“Desires are already memories.”

— Anonymous

“Desire is arcane”

— M. Pierce

All men desire to be immortal.

— Theodore Parker

As long as I feel good, I'll have the desire to play.

— Dimitar Berbatov

“You can use your imagination to get exactly what you desire.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

— Horace

I have no desire to be famous at all.

— Casey Affleck

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

— Ron Silver

“The desire for acceptance and belonging is so strong.”

— Jenny Hayworth

“Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.”

— Ranata Suzuki

Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

— James Thomas Fields

Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.

— Anonymous

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

— Nora Ephron

“No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of…

— Bryant McGill

Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them.

— Matthew Ashimolowo

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

— Rumi

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

— Donald Miller

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision, a goal.

— Maria Micah Rosales

Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.

— Barbara Ess

We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is…

— Jack Kornfield

“I fight with the urge to be poetically vague like a fleeting rainfall, and the craving to be analytically thorough like a…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Lack of spiritual desire should grieve us and lead us to lament its absence, to seek earnestly for its bestowal, so that…

— E.M.Bounds

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination…

— Grenville Kleiser

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is…

— Francis Quarles

Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep…

— Tawni O'Dell

“My love, you are playing with a fire that you do not fully understand.” His voice was deep and controlled. “There are…

— Tina Carreiro

He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and…

— May Sarton

A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a…

— Gustave Flaubert

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church,…

— Voltaire

“We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do…

— Simone Weil

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something…

— Sylvester Stallone

“But as soon as our tongues collided, the sparks, the dizziness, and the butterflies all made sense. He made sense. We made…

— Danielle Allen

Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that…

— Ze Frank

Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most…

— Anonymous

“The primitive craving for survival is universal in all things capable of dying. Now imagine if you could isolate the basic element…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko