Desire Quote by Denis Diderot

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

— P.D. Ouspensky

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act…

— Anonymous

Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of…

— Wendy Farley

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

— David Levithan

“To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose…

— Stephen Richards

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

— Henry Van Dyke

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

— Anonymous

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

— Lionel Shriver

Desire creates its own object.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty…

— Dan B. Allender

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather,…

— Bernadette Roberts