Desired Quote by John Berger Download Open image “To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.” — John Berger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Closest Anybody Desired Feeling Immortal Feelings Immortal Immortality Life Reach Feeling This life
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible. — Pindar Copy Share Image
In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed. — Maria Theresa Copy Share Image
We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one. — John Berger Copy Share Image
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. — John Berger Copy Share Image
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“When a long-desired baby is born, what joy! More happiness than we find in sex, more than we take in success, revenge, or wealth.… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living -… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets… — Ken Stott Copy Share Image
“Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read, however extraordinary… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image