Desire Quotes by Gautama Buddha

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

— Gautama Buddha

The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.

— Gautama Buddha

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

— Gautama Buddha

Live joyfully, without desire.

— Gautama Buddha

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

— Gautama Buddha

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

— Gautama Buddha

When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

— Gautama Buddha

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

— Gautama Buddha

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

— Gautama Buddha

Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.

— Gautama Buddha

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

— Gautama Buddha

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

— Gautama Buddha

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do…

— Gautama Buddha

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

— Gautama Buddha

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop…

— Gautama Buddha

Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is…

— Gautama Buddha

The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises…

— Gautama Buddha

All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in…

— Gautama Buddha

I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all…

— Gautama Buddha

The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the…

— Gautama Buddha

In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock…

— Gautama Buddha

Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful.…

— Gautama Buddha

One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should…

— Gautama Buddha

Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner…

— Gautama Buddha

Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in…

— Gautama Buddha

If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from…

— Gautama Buddha

The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man…

— Gautama Buddha

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."…

— Gautama Buddha

When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even…

— Gautama Buddha

Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood…

— Gautama Buddha

... Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon…

— Gautama Buddha

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

— Gautama Buddha

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

— Gautama Buddha

It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the…

— Gautama Buddha

“A man asked Gautama Buddha, "I want happiness." Buddha said, "First remove "I," that's Ego, then remove "want," that's Desire. See now…

— Gautama Buddha

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

— Gautama Buddha

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not…

— Gautama Buddha

A man asked Lord Buddha "I want happiness." Lord Buddha said - first remove "I" that's ego. Then remove "Want" that's desire.…

— Gautama Buddha

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving…

— Gautama Buddha

Craving and desire are the cause of all unhappiness. Everything sooner or later must change, so do not become attached to anything.…

— Gautama Buddha