Quotes about Desire
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
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
— John Donne
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
— Erica Jong
And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
— CS Lewis
Love is needing to be loved.
— John Lennon
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
— Mortimer Adler
We agreed to love each other madly.
— Jack Kerouac