Christian-fiction Quote by Geoffrey Wood

“We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires”

— Paulo Coelho

“Desire always breeds more desire. Eventually, it becomes difficult to control.”

— Andy Raskin

“One takes so many things for granted until they are denied and the desire is heightened.”

— Bryan Mooney

“For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love…

— Mary Shelley

“As our options expand, so do our desires - and unmet desires in particular.”

— Megan McCafferty

“In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.”

— Christina Lauren

“You are what you desire. You may live with desires and determine all that you want; But your actions determine what and how much…

— Gian Kumar

“Wants are never satiated. In fulfilling one desire, we neglect another.”

— Matt Tomerlin

“With no desire, at rest and still, All things go right as of their will.”

— Lao Tzu

“The story of my life is wanting, hungering, for what I cannot have or, perhaps, wanting what I dare not allow myself to have.”

— Roxane Gay

“To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.”

— Heraclitus

“Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting…

— Lionel Shriver