Quotes about Desire
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
— Livy
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
— AW Tozer
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
— John Keats
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
— John Eldredge
Hope is a waking dream.
— Aristotle
Anger is really disappointed hope.
— Erica Jong
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
— Samuel Johnson
What you hope for, you also fear.
— Alice Walker
Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
— Joseph Addison
The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To hope is not to demand.
— Anonymous