Delusion 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

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

— Marcel Wanders

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

— Angela Carter

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

— Angela Carter

In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an…

— Frederick Lenz

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

— William Hazlitt

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire creates its own object.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison