desire Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

51 desire Quotes
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“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.”
Lawrence Block Quotes
“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
Madame de Stael Quotes
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
Mario Andretti Quotes
“If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.”
Brendan Francis Quotes
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”
Napoleon Hill Quotes
“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.”
Joss Whedon Quotes
“A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times”
Napoleon Hill Quotes
“I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.”
Joni Mitchell Quotes
“We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.”
Francois Rabelais Quotes
“As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. XLII, v. 1)
“Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.”
Henry George Quotes
Source: Progress and Poverty (bk. II, ch. 3)
“Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium Nudus castra peti.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Carmina (bk. III, 16, 22)
“The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes
Source: Longing
“We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes
Source: Amorum (III, 4, 17)
“Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. [Lat., Velle suuum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.]”
Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Satires (V, 53)
“Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh-- To join blest spirits in celestial lands!”
Francesco Petrarch Quotes
Source: To Laura in Death (sonnet XLV)
“Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at V, ii)
“I do desire we may be better strangers.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Orlando at III, ii)
“Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at IV, i)
“Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at IV, i)
“Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Rape of Lucrece (l. 1,490)
“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Source: Man and Superman (act IV)
“The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Source: To---- One Word is too Often Profaned.
“We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.”
Richard Henry Stoddard Quotes
Source: The Squire of Low Degree--The Princess Answers (I, l. 13)
“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
Sir James M. Barrie Quotes