Desire Quotes

The disturbers of happiness are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

"Everyone is a somebody to someone."

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn...

You can only get what you can imagine you can get.

I trust you understand that our hearts can take us all to dark and ill timed places. Warmly, Courtney. xx

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

We were never taught to appreciate disobeying our desires.

One of the great things was learning about meditation. What is spoken of a lot is the notion of no self, no 'I.' What is ego, what is mind, nature of mind ... and what is desire?

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mind is desiring. And when there is no mind how can there be an ego? Ego is the center of the false mind.

When there's someone that you want,
when there's someone that you need
let's make it all, all for one and all for love.

Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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

[On having "Eliminating Desire" on his Facebook profile] I just want to focus on what we're doing. When I put it in my profile, that's what I was focused on. I think it's probably Buddhist? To me it's just... I think it would be very easy to get distracted and get caught up in short-term things or material things that don't matter. The phrase is actually 'Eliminating desire for all that doesn't really matter.'

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.