Quotes about Desire
Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?
- Richard Paul Evans
Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.
- Rick Warren
Love requited is a short circuit.
- Samuel Beckett
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
- Samuel Johnson
Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.
- Thomas a Kempis
Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.
- Thomas a Kempis
She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
- Victor Hugo
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
- William Hazlitt
We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Tobacco is the tomb of love.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Any desire to grow is following the flow of love
- Deepak Chopra
When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
- Desmond Tutu