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Quotes about Desire

Free is the person who lives as he wishes - And cannot be coerced, impeded, or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires, and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.
- Epictetus
Maybe she will make our wishes come true before we burn her.
- Erica Jong
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.
- John Ortberg
I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.
- Tony Hale
I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
- Marianne Williamson
However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.
- Paulo Coelho
I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.
- Ellen White
People kill for love. They die for love.
- Helen Fisher
I've been dying to do a Marvel picture for so long.
- Michael Douglas
I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.
- Richard O'Brien
I never grew up with money, and I never wanted a lot of material things.
- Katie Lee
No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.
- John Mayer