“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“Mustapha Mond paused, put down the first book and, picking up the other, turned over the pages. “Take this, for example,” he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“She fluttered her fan. “And do you know what they say of women of a certain age, what they want above all?”… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“If you challenge yourself to live as though it were your last week, your mind may come up with all kinds of… — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“From the Earl of Hellgate's Memoirs, Chapter the Twenty-Sixth I realized then that I had mistaken the nature of love. Love has… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
1968 in Paris renewed my options. There was suddenly a desire of inventing new things, and I while I was working as… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions"… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“He eased himself into her mind slowly so he didn’t jar her awake. He held her in her dreamless state, the sensations… — Jolyn Palliata Copy Share Image
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“I’m heartened by our dissatisfaction, because dissatisfaction is a world away from indifference. The widespread nostalgia, the yearning for a past that… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Life is never perfect. Even the strongest crumble and fall to their knees. Even legends say enough is enough. There's also a… — Shey Stahl Copy Share Image
To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Falling in love, I always got a reason to realize that you were never mine...and I always reassured my heart saying that… — Shreya Copy Share Image
“ ardent, adj. It was after sex, when there was still heat and mostly breathing, when there was still touch and mostly… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Find other women to make movies with that have a shared bottom line. I did that with my first film and found… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
“And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future.… — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
You see a briefcase for business, a bookbag for education, a knife and gun for violence. Then there's government, law, media overall,… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
It's definitely an issue if the actor has passed away without stating any intention or desire about how his or her likeness… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
“I wish you wouldn't have given the sundial bracelet to Terease" "Why?" I question and press my head onto his chest, pushing… — Michelle Warren Copy Share Image
“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
