Quotes about Desire
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
- Victor Hugo
God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.
- Scott Hahn
People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him.
- Pope John Paul II
Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.
- Mark Twain
God's will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.
- Myles Munroe
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
- Ian Mckellen
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
- Anais Nin
No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.
- Paulo Coelho
But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars
- Dante Alighieri
When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
- Ernest Hemingway
We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.
- Henry B. Eyring