Quotes about Desire
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
- Mark Twain
It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating, " said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?""Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty, " said Edmund.
- CS Lewis
One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.
- Walter Kasper
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
- Wayne Dyer
There is something far more important than your present situation - your dream and your goal.
- TB Joshua
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
- St. Augustine
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.
- Tessa Afshar
I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
- AB Simpson
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
- Marquis de Sade
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
- Marquis de Sade
One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
- Marquis de Sade