| Author |
Quotes |
| Anouk Aimee | It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting. |
| Benedict De Spinoza | Desire is the very essence of man. |
| Benedict Spinoza | Desire is the essence of a man. |
| Bertrand Russell | All human activity is prompted by desire. |
| Bible | As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. |
| Buck Williams | It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most |
| Christian Nestell Bovee | We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. |
| Edgar F Roberts | Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. |
| F H Bradley | The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. |
| Francesco Petrarch | Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh-- To join blest spirits in celestial lands! |
| Gaelic Proverb | More than we use is more than we want. |
| Gaston Bachelard | Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. |
| George Bernard Shaw | There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. |
| Henry George | Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. |
| Italian Proverb | He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. |
| James Allen | You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. |
| James Russell Lowell | The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. |
| Joseph Wood Krutch | What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. |
| Marcel Proust | We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. |
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