Desire Quotes
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Quote by -Aristotle
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Quote by -Aristotle
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Quote by -Rumi
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
Quote by -Rumi
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
Quote by -Rumi
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
Quote by -Rumi
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.”
Quote by -George Santayana
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
“His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.
Quote by -Isoroku Yamamoto
“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
"I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold"
Quote by -Mahmoud Darwish
"We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are."
Quote by -Mahmoud Darwish
No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."
Quote by -Charles Lamb
"Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"The two great movers of the human mind are the desire for good, and the fear of evil"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die.
Quote by -Louis Pasteur
"She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be."
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability."
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of desire your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst."
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"The Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love"
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze."
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire