Quotes about Desire
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
— Paulo Coelho
Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.
— Marianne Williamson
Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.
— Ronald Reagan
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
— St. Augustine
How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.
— Craig Groeschel
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
— AW Tozer
The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.
— Aristotle
Our problem with desire is that we want too little.
— CS Lewis
Please, sir, I want some more.
— Charles Dickens
"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."
— Coco Chanel