Top 100 I Have No Desire Quotes
#1. The thing is, I don't have the strength to end my life. I have no desire to slit my wrists or OD on pills. I'm too tired. Too lazy. If I could just fade into nonexistence, that'd be perfect.
Cheryl McIntyre
#2. The consciousness of my own baseness has done nothing to reconcile me to the baseness of others. Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. I have no desire for that slimy brotherhood.
Milan Kundera
#3. I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.
Hannah Arendt
#4. The difference between God an I is that everyday, I too deal with people who don't love but I have no desire to kill them or wish them to suffer for all of eternity for it
Anonymous
#5. My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.
John Steinbeck
#6. 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
#7. What if they get hostile?" Ember asked. "I have no desire to become a Redshirt.
Bryan Fields
#8. Just in case you're wondering, I have no desire to off myself. I do, however, have other desires. Shame I'm so weak right now. I have a feeling I could rock your world.
Lissa Jay
#9. Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.
Neil Kinnock
#10. I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.
Trey Parker
#11. I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.
Fred Astaire
#12. You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.
America Ferrera
#13. I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.
Anna Netrebko
#14. I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
Zoe Kravitz
#15. I have no desire to cherish each person's bullshit and call it a beautiful snowflake.
Penny Reid
#16. I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, or too many heavy bands, or too many folk bands, or just whatever. I have no desire to be known as somebody that just works on a single style of music and would rather avoid it, actually.
John Congleton
#17. I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture.
Jonathan Dee
#19. I have no desire to spend every night of the next few months at balls and soirees or drowning in tea with morning callers.
Sarah M. Eden
#20. I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.
Laozi
#21. I love being in a brothers band. I have no desire to move away from it at all.
Joe Jonas
#22. The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.
Michael Longley
#23. I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
Andrew Taylor Still
#24. If Harry had been less noble, less fair-minded, Cedric would have lived. It is a very classic example of how noble intentions often lead to tragic results." He straightened, squared off with the hunter. "I have no desire to be Harry Potter.
Joey W. Hill
#25. We are who we are. I have no desire to be something else. But right now I'm afraid of what it means for those who I care about.
Andrea Cremer
#26. I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.
Adelia Prado
#27. I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em.
Carl Panzram
#28. I have no desire to make windows into mens souls.
Elizabeth I
#29. You are safe with me."
"I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.
A.S. Byatt
#30. I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me.
Blake Mycoskie
#32. In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#33. I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.
Gina Bellman
#34. You never say to a president for certain you wouldn't do anything, but I have no - look at me now - I have no desire to sit on the Supreme Court, none. It would be a great honor , but I have no desire, any more than George Mitchell did.
Joe Biden
#35. I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday,
Selena Gomez
#36. My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
Mary MacLane
#37. I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
Sophocles
#38. I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
Charles Babbage
#39. Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
John Lasseter
#40. If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.
Saffron Burrows
#41. I have no desire to fight with anyone, anyway. I have a desire to forgive everyone, every way.
Debasish Mridha
#42. I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn't love.
Marguerite Duras
#43. I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?
Morley Safer
#44. I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.
Hal Holbrook
#45. NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
Rachael Ray
#46. Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.
Glenn Beck
#47. Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#48. People have told me to have sex when i feel the desire to, but right now i have no desire to pull my pants down in front of a girl.
Zac Hanson
#49. I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.
Harmony Korine
#50. I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.
Ai Weiwei
#51. I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
Liam Neeson
#52. Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.
Kelly Clarkson
#53. I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
#54. I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love
Allan Bloom
#55. On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road ... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.
Kit Harington
#56. I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
Lou Holtz
#57. I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Harry S. Truman
#58. No, I have no desire to be a feminist, I just want to be a female,
Gyula Krudy
#59. If I have no appetite - it is because I am already full. If I have no desire to go anywhere - it is because I have already arrived.
Max Strom
#60. I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
Marcus Garvey
#61. I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.
Kathleen Turner
#62. Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me
Mary Haskell
#63. I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.
David Gordon Green
#64. I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
Charles Edison
#65. I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever.
Alicia Silverstone
#66. My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
Paul Theroux
#67. Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm privy!"
"My dear Lifeblesser, please trust me when I say the I have no desire to know any secrets which involve you and a privy.
Brandon Sanderson
#68. I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills.
Hermann Hesse
#69. I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.
Sara Zarr
#70. I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
Mark Knopfler
#71. Never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.
Norman Mailer
#72. I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.
Robin Williams
#73. I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.
Dionne Warwick
#74. I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.
Henry Rollins
#76. Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.
Dan Flavin
#77. I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
Zach Braff
#78. As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.
Antonio Davis
#79. I have no desire to change things because I am the youngest in my family. I like meeting new people when I travel: these brief and inconsequential encounters have the thrill of beginnings and the sadness of separations.
Edouard Leve
#80. I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered.
Alison Rosen
#81. I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.
John Squire
#82. I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.
Glenn Beck
#83. They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.
Frederic Chopin
#84. I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.
Milarepa
#85. I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.
Sandra Bullock
#86. No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.
Mark Twain
#87. Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.
Stefan Sagmeister
#88. I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.
Rutger Hauer
#89. I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.
Carl Karcher
#90. At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.
Lawrence Sanders
#91. But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.
George W. Bush
#92. As hard as my life has been I have no desire for revenge. If I wish for anything it is for all the things that have been stolen from my life to be returned to me.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#93. The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers ... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?
Rachel Nichols
#95. I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for the most part I'm pretty much, "You've got to be joking, right?"
Ian Astbury
#96. No." She smiled. "I am exactly where I need to be.
I have no desire to enter negotiations with Lord
Garrett and his heir."
He couldn't keep down his dark pleasure at that.
Anne Mallory
#97. I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.
Jewel Staite
#99. I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.
Pierce Brosnan
