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Desire Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.
- Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear…
- She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything,…
- Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt…
- His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner…
- Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?
More Desire Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling