DESIRE QUOTES V

quotations about desire

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

Acts of Faith


Seen by himself, Desire appears the least well-favoured of the Gods: but when he is in Love's company, the two can hardly be distinguished.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual or infinitized by the spirit. It is the property of a metaphysical nature. Such desires reach for the infinite, because the intellect thirsts for being and being is infinite.

JACQUES MARITAIN

Approaches to God


Men over-estimate what they desire
Through ignorance of it: credulous Pursuit
Thinks his betrothed, Possession, is divine;
But finds she is a mortal like himself.

HENRY ABBEY

"Karagwe"


Forbid us something, and that thing we desire; but press it on us hard, and we will flee.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The Canterbury Tales


Disdain to warm thee at lust's smoky fires,
Scorn, scorn to feed on thy old bloat desires:
Come, come, my soul, hoist up thy higher sails,
The wind blows fair; shall we still creep like snails,
That glide their ways with their own native slimes?

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems


What desire can be contrary to nature, since it was given to man by nature itself?

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Madness & Civilization


Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune


And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

BIBLE

Ecclesiastes 12:5


Two hearts fading like a flower
And all this waiting for the power
For some answer to this fire
Sinking slowly
The water is higher
Desire

RYAN ADAMS

"Desire", Demolition


To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive."

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


Temptation, break the vow
Cut flesh from the sacred cow
Unchain the tiger, kiss the flame, feel your desire

DEF LEPPARD

"Pearl of Euphoria", Slang


Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

RICHARD DAWKINS

The God Delusion


Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.

WENDY FARLEY

The Wounding and Healing of Desire


All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

ECKHARD TOLLE

The Power of Now


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

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


We become decrepit with age, but not so Desire.
Infirmity assails us, the skin wrinkles,
The hair whitens, the body becomes crooked,
Old age comes on.
Desire alone grows younger every day.

BHARTRHARI

"Verses on Renunciation"

Tags: Bhartrhari


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


The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd
Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems