Desired Quotes

463 Desired quotes by 375 unique authors

Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my… — Charlotte Bronte
In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates. — Paulo Coelho
The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure… — Rebecca Solnit
The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I… — Confucius
It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well… — Charlaine Harris
This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or… — Anais Nin
It made Fire so angry, the thought of such a medicine, a violence done to herself to stop her from creating anything like herself. And… — Kristin Cashore
I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul. — Hanif Kureishi
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I know you’re going to find this hard to believe, but for some reason I don’t understand, I actually like you…most of the time. (Simone)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive. — Joyce Carol Oates
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings… — A. S. Byatt
Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired. — Paulo Coelho
Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in… — Jeanette Winterson
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever… — Mark Twain
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. — Charlotte Bronte
All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps. — Michael Ondaatje
If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and… — Paulo Coelho
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge… — Italo Calvino
If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it.… — Paulo Coelho
It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is… — Alexandre Dumas

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