Desire Quote by René Girard

“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 my animal instincts desire the forbidden, I feel pleasure in seeking them without constrictions placed by laws, worldly or religious”

— Rochelle Magee

“Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour…

— Hanif Kureishi

“We each make our solo voyages to deep, expansive waters. Alone in our contest with the wider world, we test our mettle and seek…

— Carl Safina

“Many of the physical desires and emotions are akin to those of the lower animals, and in the undeveloped man these desires and emotions…

— Yogi Ramacharaka

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any…

— Anonymous

“In life, there are brief and momentary opportunities that ask us to assert our existence. Although a creative impulse, they can be destructive, because…

— Kamand Kojouri

“Unlike captive animals, people’s perceptions of control or helplessness aren’t entirely dictated by outside forces. We have the ability to create choice by altering…

— Sheena Iyengar

“Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans…

— John Gray

“Human desire tends to be insatiable.”

— Alan Wilson Watts

“A man engrossed in sensual pleasures may form a mistaken out look upon life and think that he enjoys life more than others do.…

— Mohammad Qutub

“We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts them, creates…

— Emil Cioran