Quotes about Desire
People destroy what they love.
— Paulo Coelho
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love and do as you will.
— St. Augustine
Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
— St. Augustine
Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
— St. Augustine
God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
— John Donne
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
— St. Augustine
They were like two enemies in love with one another.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.
— John Piper
You are what you love.
— St. Augustine