Desire Quote by Cassandra Clare

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

“The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is…

— Aristotle

“Is love a passionate embrace, where you grab but cannot taste. your lustfull urge will surely replace, that bitter sweet pleasure that only leads…

— Pierre Blundell

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

— Mario Cuomo

“Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Ironically, the more we crave to possess and dominate the world and others, the deeper and more unbearable becomes the chasm of our own…

— Stephen Batchelor

“There is plenty of misery in the world, all right, but there is ample pleasure, as well. If a person forswears pleasure in order…

— Tom Robbins

“I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their relationship to…

— Mikhail Lermontov

Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.

— Martha Nussbaum

“When a desire is born in us , we have a choice. When it exists still in its infancy, we have a choice. We…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so…

— William Shakespeare