Desire Quote by Philip Sidney

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

— Quintilian

There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are…

— Guy Davenport

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one…

— Viktor E. Frankl

As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— William Hazlitt

“Now we come to the crux of my philosophy: if the taking of pleasure is enhanced by the criminal character of the circumstances --…

— Marquis de Sade

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

— Seneca the Younger

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

— Giacomo Casanova

There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are…

— Guy Davenport

Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

— Allen Wheelis

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

— Tryon Edwards