Quotes about Desire

All Life needs for life is possible to will.

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many

how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the way a soldier longs for his wife faraway. It a relentless homesickness that, however desperately we try, will accept no substitutes.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.