Desire Quotes And Sayings

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“If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.”
– Thomas Hobbes

“Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.”
– William Braxton Irvine

“The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.”
– Basil W. Maturin

“The desire of the righteous ends only in good, but the hope of the wicked in wrath.”
– Proverbs

“We are desire. It is the essence of the human soul, the secret of our existence. Absolutely nothing of human greatness is ever accomplished without it. Not a symphony has been written, a mountain climbed, an injustice fought, or a love sustained apart from desire. Desire fuels our search for the life we prize. Our desire, if we will listen to it, will save us from committing soul-suicide, the sacrifice of our hearts on the altar of “getting by.” The same old thing is not enough. It never will be.”
– John Elderdge

“Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.”
– Paul Vernon Buser

“When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement.”
– Iyanla Vanzant

“There’s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.”
– Bob Dylan

“When I desire you a part of me is gone.”
– Anne Carson

Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it–it’s almost as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person. When one is in the grip of an obsession, everything else–children, regular meals, sleep, work–is swept away. The entire being is one yearning, frothing bath of desire. It’s the dirty trick of obsession that getting its way–spending time with the object of desire, having sex with the object of desire–doesn’t lessen the obsession, but increases it. Although an addict, while obsessed, truly believes that being with the object of the obsession will cure the obsession, the opposite is true. When an alcoholic promises that all he needs is one last bender to achieve satisfaction, he’s chasing a chimera.”
– Susan Cheever

“A desire scorned and neglected is an enemy lying in wait with bared dagger.”
– Abraham Miller

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.”
– Sylvia Plath

“A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.”
– Saul Bellow

“Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.”
– Thomas Hobbes

“Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“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

“Desires satisfied are but as seeds sown a second time.”
– Edward Counsel

“People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they’ve indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don’t indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.”
– Rumi

“Desires are central to the soul’s unfolding and should not be dismissed before giving them careful attention.”
– Thomas Moore

“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.”
– Marcel Proust

“Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.”
– Robert J. Collier

“Desire is the source of our most noble aspirations and our deepest sorrows. The pleasure and the pain go together; indeed, they emanate from the same region in our hearts. We cannot live without the yearning, and yet the yearning sets us up for disappointment–sometimes deep and devastating disappointment.”
– John Elderdge

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.”
– Deepak Chopra

“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

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