Quotes about Desire

It would seem as if there never was a book written, or a story told, expressly with the object of keeping boys on shore, which did not lure and charm them to the ocean, as a matter of course.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.

Judiciously show a cat, milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was—anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never have had it?

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.

There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a-going—none of 'em—ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon.

Barkis suspira.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

Christianity to me is like a hopeless love affair. It is infinitely dear and infinitely unattainable.