Addresses Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“Desire also creates a sense of attachment in the mind. Not only are we attached to our way of thinking and of seeing the…

— Gyalwa Dokhampa

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty…

— Dan B. Allender

“desires,” I mean things we feel that we need or want very strongly. There’s an element of passion in the experience of desire”

— Calvin D. Banyan

“Our wants and longings and desires are at the core of our identity, the wellspring from which our actions and behavior flow.”

— James K.A. Smith

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

— Eric Hoffer

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration,…

— Philip Sington

Desire is the essence of a man.

— Baruch Spinoza

“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

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

— Lionel Shriver

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