Quotes about Desire

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.

People's desire and ability to think — to process, gather, and study information to ensure they arrive at an accurate conclusion — has been greatly diminished.

I'd rather be nowhere with her then somewhere without her.

Science makes us understand how to stay alive longer - feelings give us the reason to want to

Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

True learning takes energy, passion, a burning desire. Anger is a big part of that formula, for passion is anger and love combined. When it comes to money, most people want to play it safe and feel secure so passion does not direct them. Fear does. ...it's easier to learn to work for money, especially if fear is your primary emotion when the subject of money is discussed.

All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.