Desire Quotes

Ah, desire.

That first spark, the hidden whisper deep within the soul that pushes us toward the unknown. It's not just a need but an unquenchable thirst, a blind force that tears down and builds up, guiding the lover, the fighter, and the dreamer.

It might be an elusive dream, a forbidden craving, or an ambition that changes the face of the world. It is the inherent driving force behind every great or contemptible human action, untamable by logic alone, residing in our very nature, at the core of our being.

These *quotes* are flashes from the flame of that sacred and destructive fire: the desire for love, the desire for success, and the desire for survival.

Quote by Heraclitus: It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as ...
Quote by Mitch Hedberg: I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio?...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant i...
Quote by Swami Vivekananda: Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin ...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in o...
Quote by Swami Vivekananda: The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happines...
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish....
Quote by William Butler Yeats: I knew that I had seen, had seen at lastThat girl my unremembering nights hold fastOr else my dreams...
Quote by Hunter S. Thompson: I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again....
Quote by Albert Camus: The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature....
Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Who doesn't desire his fathers death?...
Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt: It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the th...
Quote by Lao Tzu: When there is no desire, all things are at peace...
Quote by John C. Maxwell: In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so fo...
Quote by Aristotle: If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else b...
Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld: Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner....
Quote by Victor Hugo: Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal....
Quote by Jonathan Swift: Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old....
Quote by Swami Vivekananda: So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free be...
Quote by William Shakespeare: This liberty is all that I request....
Quote by Wayne Dyer: Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming i...
Quote by George S. Patton: By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great....
Quote by Socrates: How many things are there which I do not want....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts...
Quote by Ralph Marston: One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it tak...
Quote by C.S. Lewis: All get what they want; they do not always like it....
Quote by Swami Vivekananda: Free thyself from the mighty attraction-The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex.Break the harp!...
Quote by Swami Vivekananda: Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but br...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomp...
Quote by Will Rogers: We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it...
Quote by Charles Dickens: Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural pr...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserab...
Quote by Ronald Reagan: Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it....
Quote by Mark Twain: I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody...
Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish....
Quote by Thomas Aquinas: Wonder is the desire for knowledge....
Quote by Lao Tzu: Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little....
Quote by Plato: The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance...
Quote by Jonathan Swift: The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w...
Quote by C.S. Lewis: Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question....
Quote by Kahlil Gibran: Happiness is a myth we seek,If manifested surely irks;Like river speeding to the plain,On its arriva...
Quote by Wayne Dyer: I have found that people who have a passion or a strong will for what they want to achieve, and who ...
Quote by Lao Tzu: Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to ta...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live th...
Quote by Zig Ziglar: Fear is the fatal killer of desire....
Quote by Napoleon Hill: Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions....
Quote by Guy Finley: It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain st...
Quote by William Butler Yeats: What can books of men that wiveIn a dragon-guarded land,Paintings of the dolphin-drawnSea-nymphs in ...
Quote by Henry Van Dyke: It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire....
Quote by Alan Watts: For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not kn...
Quote by Socrates: When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the dir...
Quote by Langston Hughes: I wish the rent Was heaven sent....
Quote by Woodrow Wilson: The fewer the desires, the more peace....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiti...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Life loiters at the book's first page,--Ah! could we turn the leaf....
Quote by William Shakespeare: Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?...
Quote by William Butler Yeats: What can be shown?What true love be?All could be known or shownIf Time were but gone....
Quote by Rumi: I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Fr...
Quote by Malcolm X: If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it....