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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
HENRY GEORGE, Progress and Poverty
- Abstinence sows sand all over
- The ruddy limbs and flaming hair,
- But Desire gratified
- Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
WILLIAM BLAKE, Gnomic Verses
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
- What is it men in women to require?
- The lineaments of gratified desire.
- What is it women do in men require?
- The lineaments of gratified desire.
WILLIAM BLAKE, Gnomic Verses
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD, The Squire of Low Degree--The Princess Answers
It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.
T.S. ARTHUR, "A Mystery Explained," After a Shadow and Other Stories
Desire: the starting point of all achievement.
NAPOLEON HILL, Think and Grow Rich
Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Table Talk, July 23, 1827
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
Sex ... or lack thereof ... is at the center of everyone's identity, and once you've cracked someone's desires, you understand them in full.
ARIANNE COHEN, Marie Claire Magazine, March 2008
- We are the mediocre,
- we are the half givers,
- we are the half lovers,
- we are the savourless salt.
- Break the hard crust
- of complacency.
- Quicken in us
- the sharp grace of desire.
CARYLL HOUSELANDER, attributed, Soul Weavings
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
- I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit,
- I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit,
- At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread,
- But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.
BHARTRHARI, "Against the Desire of Worldly Things"
- Desire rules over men, those half-gods vain,
- And is the tyrant of their heart and brain.
That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.
STEPHENIE MEYER, Breaking Dawn
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.
TERESA MEDEIROS, The Vampire Who Loved Me
It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
MOTHER TERESA, A Gift for God
- The dead are happy, having no desire.
- I rise and fall, and rise and fall again,
- Something is in me, famishing for bread,
- Baffled and unappeasable as fire.
ARTHUR SYMONS, "Soror Tua"
- Nought's had, all's spent,
- Where our desire is got without content.
The best joke of all is to give someone just what they've wanted.
TONY BALLANTYNE, Recursion
- The moth unwitting rushes on the fire,
- Through ignorance the fish devours the bait,
- We men know well the foes that lie in wait,
- Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
BHARTRHARI, "Against the Love of Beauty"
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