Desire Quote by William Shakespeare

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act…

— Anonymous

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

— Dallas Willard

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

— P.D. Ouspensky

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

— Saint Augustine

“To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose…

— Stephen Richards

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

— Ludwig von Mises

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

— Anonymous

“Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.”

— Susan Sontag

I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather,…

— Bernadette Roberts

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

— Martin Luther

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a…

— William Blackstone

The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die.…

— Ellen Willis