Top 100 Desire Life Quotes
#1. Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.
Khalid Ibn Al-Walid
#2. Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire ... Life is wanting.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#3. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.
G.K. Chesterton
#4. We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet are ready to drink death like wine.
G.K. Chesterton
#5. The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.
Simone Weil
#6. Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.
Charles Stross
#7. Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.
Anya Seton
#8. You must dare the impossible. With divine grace, it will be possible.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. Fitness means you "fit" into the life that you desire.
Toni Sorenson
#10. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.
Joseph Murphy
#11. This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Charles Baudelaire
#12. I've always had a strange acting life. I'm the daughter of a director, and a very French, typical director who fell in love with every single one of his actresses. And that's also something that's kind of normal in the acting business, because everything is based on desire, one way or the other.
Lou Doillon
#13. all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death.
Amos Oz
#14. Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
Bryant H. McGill
#15. I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
Philip Roth
#16. Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.
Danielle LaPorte
#17. If you must chase make certain its with passion so you may reap a worthy reward.
Eyob M. A.
#18. But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.
Elizabeth Berg
#19. Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.
Jeff Koons
#20. When there is nothing to desire, there is nothing to dream about either, because dreams are reflections of your desires. Dreams are reflections of your frustrations, dreams are reflections of your repressions, dreams reflect your day-life.
Rajneesh
#21. If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
Bono
#23. We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#24. Apart from new dreams, opportunities, love and blessings in new places, it's God's most earnest desire to give you a new life.
Jamie Larbi
#25. The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.
Wayne Dyer
#26. Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness.
Matthew Kelly
#27. Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different ... I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
Dorothy Allison
#28. You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.
America Ferrera
#29. Be, do, have as you desire, but dare not hurt a soul.
Zahida A. Khan
#30. Schopenhauer wrote that to desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. He was correct.
Michael LaRocca
#31. When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.
Brian Tracy
#32. For Christians who desire to write, the call to read broadly is an absolute necessity, for writing is, in many ways, the process of digesting and synthesizing not only the thoughts and experiences of a writer's own life, but the writer's intellectual wanderings as well.
Gene C. Fant Jr.
#33. Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#34. Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.
Debasish Mridha
#35. relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.
Fulton J. Sheen
#36. We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.
Henry B. Eyring
#37. Life is delivered as a series of subjective experiences that we have the opportunity to label and re-label according to our desire to experience pleasure or pain.
Steve Maraboli
#38. Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.
Dan Millman
#39. The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
Charles Bent
#40. To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#41. It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.
Stephanie Mills
#42. Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we'll do what we want.
Daniel Willey
#43. Living on purpose and serving a higher purpose breathes life into you every day and gives you the desire to reach your goals. You need to live each day congruently by living within your beliefs and values. Unleashing your inspired life starts with living your life's purpose.
Thomas Narofsky
#44. The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires.
Whitney Otto
#45. We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?
Dianna Hardy
#46. No one had ever looked at her just like that before, and it had the effect upon her of making her feel, for perhaps the first time in her life, a strong desire to lay the burden of her cares upon other shoulders. Captain Staple's were certainly broad enough to bear them.
Georgette Heyer
#47. Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.
Michael Ondaatje
#48. Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#49. I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.
Carew Papritz
#50. Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.
Ayn Rand
#51. The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
#52. You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure; we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life.
Steven Redhead
#53. The greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.
Marah Ellis Ryan
#54. I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
Elisabeth Elliot
#55. In life, have but one desire, one only
to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.
Pedro Arrupe
#56. If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.
Anne Hathaway
#57. Desire is the key to motivation, but determination, commitment, and actions are the keys to success.
Debasish Mridha
#58. The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#59. The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Heartbreak is when you're just far enough away from what you desire that you can feel it. Change is the Pangaea moment. I feel like I'm at this point in my life where I have created this place, this island in the ocean, and I'm happy there.
Laurel Nakadate
#61. Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity ... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
Bill Viola
#62. The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
Ernst Mach
#63. If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
#64. Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more ...
Tracey Emin
#65. Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the "class" or not, there is always something else to learn
T.D. Jakes
#67. If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.
Frederick Lenz
#68. Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.
George Edward Woodberry
#69. I attribute my success to my deep driving desire and persistence to face the tremendous adversity.
Debasish Mridha
#70. As long as she is near or within his power to reach, he will be drawn to her, leaving less of him for others and that's why she had to leave. She knew, despite her own great desire, that there are consequences and responsibilities that are more important and life-altering than personal feelings.
Donna Lynn Hope
#71. Dont desire that destiny
At where you cant see anything.
Chikun Trust
#72. There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#73. Change becomes a waste for those who do not desire to learn from it. It pushes us to bring out our personal best. It makes us realize that we are uniquely different with the capabilities to grow and shine brightly.
Kcat Yarza
#74. Desire itself is movement
Not in itself desirable;
Love is itself unmoving,
Only the cause and end of movement,
Timeless, and undesiring
Except in the aspect of time
Caught in the form of limitation
Between un-being and being.
T. S. Eliot
#75. To want your child to remain innocent whilst toughening up enough to survive This Life is entirely contradictory, but, as far as I can tell, an almost-universal parental desire. It
Nick Alexander
#76. DESTRUCTION: Our sister [Death] defines life, just as Despair defines hope, or Desire defines hatred, or as Destiny defines freedom.
MORPHEUS: And what do I define, by this theory of yours.
DESTRUCTION: Reality, perhaps.
Neil Gaiman
#77. Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective - life.
Ogwo David Emenike
#78. For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age.
And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong.
Alyssa Urbano
#79. Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.
James Freeman Clarke
#80. Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.
Philip Kitcher
#81. The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief ... Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain.
Henri Nouwen
#82. I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
John Ruskin
#83. One of the most priceless parts of our human life is the area called desire. It is a God-given gift that separates us from all the rest of creation.
Bill Johnson
#85. I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind of man who would forsake his own desires in order to seek or preserve the acceptance of lesser men.
~ Dave Champion
Dave Champion
#86. This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
The practice is always to go back to oneself.
Nhat Hanh
#87. Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord's desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
Bruce R. McConkie
#88. 12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Anonymous
#89. A lot of people desire to go to their next level but only a few are determined to grow to their next level
Saji Ijiyemi
#90. Several times in his life he had felt an intense desire to start over, to somehow turn back the clock of his life to a point where he might, if he were careful, avoid the many mistakes he had made the first time around.
Larry McMurtry
#91. Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.
Carla H. Krueger
#92. Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence ... Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.
Augustine Of Hippo
#93. My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.
T. Harv Eker
#94. I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
Victor Hugo
#95. One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
George Allen, Sr.
#96. We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
Blaise Pascal
#97. I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
James Joyce
#98. No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
Jose Saramago
#99. The desire to learn is valuable, but the desire for an education is priceless.
Debasish Mridha
#100. To have no desire is such a load of bullshit--forgive me for being so blunt. To have no passion in one's life is a cop-out for cowards.
Irina Kovalyova
