DESIRE QUOTES VIII

quotations about desire

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

PAUL VERNON BUSER

attributed, Webster's Quotations


A desire scorned and neglected is an enemy lying in wait with bared dagger.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

DENIS DIDEROT

Elements of Physiology


How long can you suppress your own desires? Until you understand that in doing so will destroy yourself.

IVAN KLIMA

Waiting for the Dark


Not wingless is Desire, as feigned by some:
For, though he mostly pace this nether earth
Seasons there are when he can lift to heaven.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


Large natures have usually large desires, and only the small are satisfied with the small.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

BOB DYLAN

"Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar"


When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments.

GERALD G. MAY

The Awakened Heart


He is fortunate who wants the things he knows he can have.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.

JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man


Men quickly find a theory that adapts itself to their desires.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


Wants, like birds, flutter till they have found a place of rest.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

PLATO

The Republic


Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan


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"


If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible.

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Parable of the Talents


Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of the world, even though these goods are not false or intrinsically unsatisfactory.... Desire shatters the economy of things; it disputes the tyranny of objects. IT longs for the great emptiness, which is beauty and love without limitation.

WENDY FARLEY

The Wounding and Healing of Desire


Whatsoever misfortunes there are
Here in this world or in the next,
They all have their root in Ignorance
And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

ARISTOTLE

Politics


The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought