Quotes about Desire

When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.

People destroy what they love.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.

I haven't the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.

These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die.

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? the boy asked the alchemist. Because that's what makes the heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

it is one thing to get used to something, another to be satisfied.