Quotes about Desire

A man looks at a "sex goddess" and lusts. A man looks at a feminine woman and worships.

We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it!—by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu'd—be-pictured,—be-butterflied, and be-fiddled.

The desire of life and health is implanted in man's nature;- the love of liberty and enlargement is a sister-passion to it

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

Short is the way from need to greed.

The soul is frail, but God is full of compassion for the distress of the soul, for the failure of the heart. It is said in the Talmud: "There are some who desire [to help others] but have not the means; whilst others have the means [and help] but have not the desire [to help]." Yet both kinds of people are holy in the eyes of God.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

I am sure the grapes are sour.