Quotes about Desire

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.

I've always known what I wanted. I've always wanted to be on top of that podium.

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

It is part of the cure to want to be cured.

we can live without sex, but we cant live without love.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.