Desire Quotes - Page 90

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Man by Nature desires to know.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.