Top 100 My Desire Quotes
#1. I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw.
Aspen Matis
#2. All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.
Jeremy Davies
#3. Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.
Ann Kidd Taylor
#4. I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.
Lisa Ling
#5. Little did I realize that my desire to add value to others would be the thing that added value to me!
John C. Maxwell
#6. T has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.
Vincent Van Gogh
#7. I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have been my obsession, my passion, my philosophers' stone of fantasy. You are my desire, my longing, my spirit. I love you unconditionally. - Sabine Strohem
Nick Bantock
#8. Being around you was the sweetest torture. I wanted to touch you, hold you, kiss you. I wanted all of you." His shoulders slumped. "But I was afraid of what would happen if I gave in my desire. If I let myself love you.
Danielle L. Jensen
#9. My desire is to preserve the sense of people's lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
Nan Goldin
#10. I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
Pierre Loti
#11. It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.
Guy Johnson
#12. In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.
Dani Shapiro
#13. My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.
Luis Suarez
#14. It is my desire I desire, and the loved being is no more than its tool.
Roland Barthes
#15. It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#16. I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.
Chris Isaak
#17. My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Janine Turner
#18. My love of cleaning is symbolic of my desire to rule the world ... I always wear a seat belt because I enjoy being alive ... and I like having two eyes, so yes to the safety goggles, too!
Kristan Higgins
#19. It's never been my desire to conquer you, Amelia. If you leave this room with me, it must be at my side. As my wife, my lover, my partner ... " His thumb brushed her lip. "My dearest friend.
Tessa Dare
#20. Pain flashed through his eyes. "Dammit, Evie." Steam huffed against my mouth. "I'm fucking drowning in my desire to be near you, to touch you" - he dropped his brow on mine and inhaled - "to be inside you." ~ Jesse Beckett
Pam Godwin
#21. My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
Panayiotis Zavos
#22. I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.
Ibn Battuta
#23. At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.
Maurice Allais
#24. It has been and always will be my desire not to attack even those whom public repute disgraces. I am not delighted at the faults of any man, since I am very conscious myself of the great beam in my own eye, nor can I be the first to cast a stone at the adulteress.
Martin Luther
#25. When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?
Sue Monk Kidd
#26. My desire is to continue to make the audience proud of what's happening in the television world of 'The Walking Dead.'
Chad Coleman
#27. I have said that I cannot explain my desire for her, and it is true. I loved her with a love thirsty and desperate. I felt that we two might commit some act so atrocious that the world, seeing us, would find it irresistible.
Gene Wolfe
#28. My primary objective, my desire would be to see the Democrat Party get shellacked in every election, to never see the Democrats ever win one again, as currently constituted.
Rush Limbaugh
#29. I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
Clive Sinclair
#30. At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life.
El-P
#32. The 'Always Keep the Faith' tattoo I have on the front represents my desire to protect my beliefs.
Jaejoong
#33. When my desire
grows too fierce
I wear my bed clothes
inside out,
dark as the night's rough husk.
Ono No Komachi
#34. If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
Cameron Russell
#35. I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.
Fran Lebowitz
#36. I covet you like any good demon would." His other hand tightened at the back of my neck. "And my desire for you increases every waking second in a way that should frighten me, but really just excites me. But most of all, I love you,
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#37. My desire for him exploded into a great hunger. I was dizzy with it.
Kenya Wright
#38. You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.
Jerry Kleczka
#39. I am a learner, my desire is to be a good listener and to have a teachable spirit in my life time.
Euginia Herlihy
#40. I'm always astonished whenever I finish anything. Astonished and depressed. My desire for perfection should prevent me from ever finishing anything; it should prevent me even from starting.
Fernando Pessoa
#41. You are my desire.
Eating your luscious love thoughts
My Junk Just Dropped Off
Christopher Moore
#42. All day and all night my desire for you unwinds like a poisonous snake.
Samar Sen
#43. There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.
Ehud Olmert
#44. I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.
Pat Schneider
#45. My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.
Chris Milk
#46. My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
Janine Turner
#47. For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
H.G.Wells
#48. I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.
Michael Arad
#49. With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.
Guy Johnson
#50. I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
Dennis Rodman
#51. I'd done it. I'd successfully pushed away two wonderful men. My desire to hurt neither of them, ended up hurting them both
S.C. Stephens
#52. I thought I'd gotten over feeling like I need to strangle members of this team. Turns out my desire to murder Cody in a violent, dehumanizing fashion had nothing to do with the darkness. It was completely natural.
Brandon Sanderson
#53. I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy.
Pat Conroy
#54. Each night I lie and dream about the one
Who kissed me and awakened my desire
I spent a single hour with him alone
And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.
L.J.Smith
#55. From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
Bayard Taylor
#56. He could have my body. He could have my pleasure. He could have my desire. But I couldn't give him my trust.
Laurelin Paige
#57. All my desire was the conversion of the heathen ... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.
David Brainerd
#58. I love attention. Maybe my desire for attention is a little too out of control, but I'm very honest.
Marc Jacobs
#59. O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away.
Derrick Williams
#60. Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.
Roland Barthes
#61. You were overwhelmed by my desire? What planet are you from? (Geary to Arik)
Moronia. Every full moon they teleport the Morons to earth and let them loose. Consider this your first encounter. (Solin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#62. All along I had been careful to differentiate my desire for love from my longing for a purely sexual thrill. Falling in love was a one in a million chance. Falling in love with another couple was a one in a billion chance. Or so I thought.
Louisa Leontiades
#63. All of a sudden, inviting Jeremy up to my room seemed like a terrible idea. I wanted him too much. My desire for him was like a thing separate from me, a wild animal with a mind of its own, attacking the bars of the cage I kept it in, looking for a weak spot." from Struck
Jennifer Bosworth
#64. My smile, on the other hand, grows even wider so that no one will suspect, and I swallow my desire to cry. The
Paulo Coelho
#66. I care how I feel and it is my desire to feel good.
Esther Hicks
#67. My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.
Tom Robbins
#68. But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.
Sarah Waters
#69. Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.
Dalai Lama
#70. Insatiable is my desire for you,
Insane is my love you,
Limitless are my boundaries for you, True are my feelings for you,
Wildest are my imaginations for you, Intense is my passion for you,
Soul is my offering for you,
Commitment is my promise to you,
Pushpa Rana
#71. I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
Kangana Ranaut
#72. To know that I was known by a new living being, who had not existed until she was made in my body by my desire and brought forth into the world by my pain and strength - that changed me. My heart, which seemed to have had only loss and grief in it before, now had joy in it also.
Wendell Berry
#73. Though I still occasionally questioned my desire to be the princess, there was no doubt in my mind that I wanted to be Maxon's.
Kiera Cass
#74. I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.
Thein Sein
#75. My desire for him is insane. He's not sentimental - neither of us is - and yet he says things to me that strike at the core of my being and speak to the fighter in me. He makes me crave him in the most vulnerable way. I can't lose him - ever.
Amy A. Bartol
#76. and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire "that he would please give me my liberty;" which I every day repeated on my knees. His
Jonathan Swift
#77. My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag carpeting getting lost in the world of the '70s sitcom. All I wanted to do was run away to the Brady house, The Partridge Family bus; even the project on 'Good Times' seemed better than Clark, NJ.
Judy Gold
#78. I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'
Julia Cameron
#79. I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
Roland Barthes
#80. I'm figuring out what I want by trial and error, and maybe that's not the best way, but it's all I've got. All I know is that I need to be my own person, someone shaped by my desire, not fear of disappointing the people who are supposed to love me.
Cora Carmack
#81. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.
Jim Butcher
#82. I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.
Mike White
#83. My desire to speak didn't come from shallow or materialistic intentions. I have the desire to encourage, to help, to share, to teach...and I found the vehicle that worked best for me through which to do that.
Bethanee Epifani
#84. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
James Turrell
#85. The smell of him and the touch of his skin, I feel my desire for him rise again and we move together.
Philippa Gregory
#86. Someone as special as him is hard to find. Impossible to forget, impossible to deny! My desire for him becomes more and more unbearable. I feel like I can't breathe anymore!
Lily Amis
#87. It was never my desire to revolutionize fashion, to make clothes that could be in a museum. I want to create clothes that have a certain style, but I want to see them used. I want to see people enjoy the things I've made.
Marc Jacobs
#88. This is a vision of ideal reflection, ideal mimesis. God's desire for me awakens my desire for him. His relentless pursuit of me sustains my passion for him. I have found my true reflection.
Andre Rabe
#89. The arrogance of wanting to be loved had emerged only now it was unreciprocated - I was left alone with my desire, defenseless, beyond the law, shockingly crude in my demands: Love me! And for what reason? I had only the usual paltry, insufficient excuse: Because I love you . .
Alain De Botton
#90. Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression.
Kim Gordon
#91. I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
Mary Shelley
#92. Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
Theodore Roethke
#93. My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.
Kent Haruf
#94. My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
Kate Bush
#95. My desire to work - my desire to engage with my creativity as intimately and as freely as possible - is my strongest personal incentive to fight back against pain, by any means necessary, and to fashion a life for myself that is as sane and healthy and stable as it can possibly be. But
Elizabeth Gilbert
#96. My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.
Zachary Quinto
#97. And then his mouth met mine and the taste of him was all I knew. I moaned, a wordless confession of my desire and complete willingness
Mia Sheridan
#98. Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.
Brett Dennen
#99. I knew with certainty now - I could say no, and he would stop. Above all, I felt the fierce beauty of the choice. I knew now what it was that had held me from falling into my desire to be with him fully: I first needed to make sure he was a man who would respect my 'No.
Aspen Matis
#100. Thank Goodness I have nearly
unlearned
folding my desire into itself
being afraid to claim it.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
