Cannot Quote by Joseph Butler

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

— Marcel Wanders

Desire creates its own object.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures…

— Gil Bailie

When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general…

— Samuel Beckett

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.

— Deepak Chopra

Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of…

— Wendy Farley

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical…

— Samuel Alexander

Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.

— Marcia Wieder

Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“... if the entity allows [the relationships with individuals] to produce a hardening of the heart, or of a determination to get even, or…

— Edgar Cayce

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

— Mark Twain

“The desire to possess is marked by an unceasingly growing, voracious element that manifests itself in the simple desire to have more, but also…

— Dorothee Soelle