Quotes about Desire
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
- Thomas Adams
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
- William Faulkner
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge
- Virginia Woolf
A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone
- JC Ryle
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
- Dale Carnegie
Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.
- Dorothy Day
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
- Cicero
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
- Muhammad Ali
The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.
- Myles Munroe
The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.
- St. Augustine
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
- St. John Chrysostom