Desire Quote by Erica Jong Download Open image ““Whatwe fear we also desire, and what we desire we fear.”” — Erica Jong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Fear
“The things we fear are almost always things which needn't be feared at all. They are creatures of our imagination.” — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
“That's the duality of human nature isn't it? That we want what we fear.” — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
“From desire come all problems. And all desires come from fear.” — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.” — Idowu Koyenikan Copy Share Image
“Fear is the result of imagining what you do not desire in your life.” — Barbar Condron Copy Share Image
“Truly, fear is a powerful force. In one way or another fear prevents people from getting what they want from life. Fear” — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Fear is insatiable, consuming everything its eyes behold, seeing itself in everything, compelled to turn upon itself and to destroy.” — Foundation for Inner Peace Copy Share Image
“What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image