Quotes about Desire
the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...
— Jack Kerouac
I do believe there are things that we desire that are not in the cards. But more often than not, when people have a desire for a relationship and it's not happening, there are probably issues to be resolved and issues people could work on that would ultimately end in that desire being fulfilled.
— Henry Cloud
It's an unbelievable achievement to win the FA Cup. I've been lucky to win it before, and I'd love to win it again.
— James Milner
When you fall for someone not even reason can help you up.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
— Maya Angelou
The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.
— Thomas Merton
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
— Epictetus
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
— Catherine of Siena
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
— George Bernard Shaw
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
— Victor Hugo
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
— Jack Kerouac