Desire Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

— Eric Hoffer

“desires,” I mean things we feel that we need or want very strongly. There’s an element of passion in the experience of desire”

— Calvin D. Banyan

What we want or desire is not necessarily we need.

— Anonymous

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What we want or desire is not necessarily what we need.

— Aisha

We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come…

— Rene Girard

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— Henry Van Dyke

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

— Elias Hicks

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

— Friedrich Nietzsche