Desire Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What we want or desire is not necessarily we need.

— Anonymous

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

— Publilius Syrus

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Aisha

“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

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Henry Van Dyke

It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies…

— T. S. Eliot

“When a desire is born in us , we have a choice. When it exists still in its infancy, we have a choice. We…

— Walter Wangerin Jr