Desire Quote by Jean Rostand Download Open image “On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.” — Jean Rostand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brink Satiated Desire Desire Appears Infinite Satiated Satiated Desire Stills
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair. — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
“It is the very nature of desire that it remains unfulfilled. It will arise again and again, and the more you try to fulfill it, the more it will arise; you are simply feeding the desire when you think you are fulfilling it.” — Osho Copy Share
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out. — Jean Rostand 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
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image