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Quotes about Desire

Sin is not rational. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't look into the future. It doesn't consider consequences, especially if they are not immediate. All it knows is "I WANT—I WANT MORE.
- Edward Welch
Screwtape warns Wormwood] Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's [God's] will, looks around upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
- Edward Welch
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
- Albert Camus
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
- Albert Camus
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
- Albert Camus
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
- Albert Camus
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
- Albert Schweitzer
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
- Aldous Huxley
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
- Aldous Huxley
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
- Aldous Huxley
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
- Aldous Huxley
I am I, and I wish I weren't.
- Aldous Huxley