Desire Quotes

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Men always desire their own good, but do not always discern it.[On veut toujours son bien, mais on ne le voit pas toujours.]

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another – which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute. Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire; so the matter’s over, and come what will come, I am satisfied.[translation by John Willis Clark]

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I gratify my desires, I sin, but I free myself of desire; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.[Je ne suis plus sûr de rien. Si j’assouvis mes désirs, je pèche mais je m’en délivre; si je refuse de les satisfaire, ils infectent l’âme tout entière.]

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.[L’action, pour certains hommes, est d’autant plus impraticable que le désir est plus fort.]

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.[A fé não é um desejo. A fé é uma Vontade. Desejos sempre são coisas para serem preenchidas, Vontade é uma força. Vontade muda o espaço à nossa volta.]

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE TO WIN, essential to success.