Quotes about Desire
People become like what they love.
- Catherine of Siena
All love craves unity.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
- St. Augustine
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
- Oscar Wilde
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
- Euripides
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
- St. Augustine
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
- Vernon Howard
God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
- Ernest Hemingway
I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
- Graham Greene
If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.
- Muhammad Ali
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
- DH Lawrence