Quotes about Desire
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?
- Samuel Beckett
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
- Mortimer Adler
Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.
- Napoleon Hill
Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love
- Paulo Coelho
A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
- Peter Kreeft
Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'
- Amy Carmichael
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
- Philip Yancey
I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
- John Bunyan
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
- Lauren Kate
Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.
- CS Lewis
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
- St. Augustine