Quotes about Desire
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
— Lee Strobel
There is within you a yearning for the divine that nothing else can satisfy.
— Leonard Sweet
You couldn't have it if you DID want it.
— Lewis Carroll
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
— Samuel Johnson
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.
— James Allen
You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.
— David Wilkerson
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
— Khalil Gibran
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
— John of the Cross
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
— Mahatma Gandhi