Desired Quotes

463 Desired quotes by 375 unique authors

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. — Ezra Pound
The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall,… — Laurell K. Hamilton
What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by… — David Nicholls
The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate anywhere in our… — Becca Fitzpatrick
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world,… — William Butler Yeats
And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a… — Emily Bronte
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on… — Franz Kafka
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. — John Berger
I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but… — Henry Miller
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. — Manly Hall
Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow. The caterpillar will become a breathtakingly beautiful butterfly. You will no longer have… — Debbie Ford
I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. — John Donne
He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the… — Stephen Crane
It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really. — Nancy Horan
He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the… — E. M. Forster
But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own… — C.S. Lewis
That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to… — Joseph Goebbels
A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She… — Libba Bray
Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the… — Jean Rhys
You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not… — Mother Teresa
When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the… — Emma Forrest

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