A person here consists simply of desire

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

— Aristophanes

“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”

— Plato

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

— Karel Reisz

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know…

— Anonymous

“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

— John Dewey

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not…

— John Steinbeck

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…

— Victor Hugo

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

— Jean Rostand

“THE ESSENCE OF YOUR DESIRE IS A FEELING”

— Danielle LaPorte

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

— John Armstrong

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is…

— John Burns

Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

— David Easton

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez