Top 100 To Desire Quotes
#1. I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.
Sonya Hartnett
#3. To desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic.
Eric G. Wilson
#4. Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.
Swami Vivekananda
#5. It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.
Criss Jami
#6. Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley
#7. Certainly,nothing proceeded according to desire.In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Good intentions had miscarried, and bad ones had not improved.
Joseph Heller
#8. With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.
A.W. Tozer
#9. To desire revival ... and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#11. Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this
tendency.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#12. Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.
Veronica Roth
#13. To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.
Cynthia Ozick
#14. If we ceased to desire the goods of our neighbor, we would never commit murder or adultery or theft or false witness. If we respected the tenth commandment, the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous.
Rene Girard
#15. Is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to desire beer. 5 Otherwise, they will drink, forget what is decreed, and pervert justice for all the oppressed.
Anonymous
#16. It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
Orson Scott Card
#17. We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.
Marcel Proust
#18. Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
Moliere
#20. Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.
Pedro Poveda Castroverde
#21. This intermittent desire to desire unselfishness was, of course, in itself entirely selfish.
Adam O'Fallon Price
#22. Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.
Tiffany Madison
#23. It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
William Hazlitt
#24. Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.
Richard J. Foster
#25. It is not in the nature of man to bear the cross, to love the cross, to keep under the body and to bring it into subjection, to fly from honours, to bear reproaches meekly, to despise self and desire to be despised, to bear all adversities and losses, and to desire no prosperity in this world.
Thomas A Kempis
#26. Above all, everything was expensive. Kids are idiots and slaves to desire. We didn't know what we really wanted, so we wanted everything.
Rika Yokomori
#27. Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
Gene Wolfe
#28. He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up all the romance that her age and environment led her to desire
F Scott Fitzgerald
#29. To desire to change one's past means there is a desire to change oneself.
To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change.
Lorii Myers
#30. Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Ramana Maharshi
#31. As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says, "Stop sinning," it says, "Behold your God.
J.D. Greear
#32. Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.
Marvin Olasky
#33. Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Lawrence Durrell
#34. Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe
#35. Love belongs to Desire. And Desire is always Cruel. -Old Man
Neil Gaiman
#36. Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
Slavoj Zizek
#37. To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
[Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]
Sallust
#38. It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.
Samuel Johnson
#39. The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.
Bertrand Russell
#41. To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
Francois Fenelon
#42. Count your years, and you will be ashamed to desire and pursue the same things you desired in your boyhood days.
Seneca.
#43. This, for Homer, is the tragedy of being human: to desire freedom, and be tortured by a sense of autonomy, and yet be imprisoned by forces beyond our control.
Kenan Malik
#45. To imagine...to dream...to aspire...to desire. The four nectars of life. Drink deep and savor the sweetness."
David Robbins
David Robbins
#46. It is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
Thomas Hobbes
#47. What I'm saying is: go barefoot. Or walk out with a handstand. Live in possibility and in constant proximity to desire. Don't just dream; burn your dreams. Heat your life with that fire.
Brad Cran
#48. If men were socialized to desire love as much as they are taught to desire sex, we would see a cultural revolution.
Bell Hooks
#49. The truth is, the soul's infinite capacity to desire is the mirror image of God's infinite capacity to give.
John Ortberg
#50. You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Eli Whitney
#51. I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
John Cleese
#52. Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.
Philip Neri
#53. Peace of mind: Thou shalt have it only, the answer seemed to come to me, when thou has ceased to desire it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#54. To live in the shadow of another person ... to desire to be adored as that person is ... is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.
Faye Hall
#55. It's one thing to want someone, to desire to be with them, but it's an entirely different thing to actually need them. I never wanted to need anyone ever again.
D.T. Dyllin
#56. It is not enough to desire to pray; we must resolutely stay with it.
Mike Bickle
#57. But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?
Elisabeth Elliot
#58. We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It's not about being right or wrong; it's about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be fed. It is what makes us survive.
DeiAmor Verus
#59. It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.
Eustace Budgell
#60. The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens
#61. To be a part of the kingdom you need to desire it enough to search it out
Sunday Adelaja
#62. If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you? ... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?
John Galt
#63. Your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave.
Italo Calvino
#64. To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.
Alec Waugh
#65. If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#66. And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#67. Learning to desire God's will is not something we can accomplish by resolve and willpower. It occurs only when we live so close to God's heart that the rhythm of our own heartbeat comes to reflect the divine pulse
David G. Benner
#68. Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#69. By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#71. He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.
Vladimir Nabokov
#72. Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains:
Marcus Aurelius
#73. It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.
Christopher Jones
#74. Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.
Henry R. Luce
#75. For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D.H. Lawrence
#76. It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
Saint John Chrysostom
#77. In order to acheive you must dream, to dream you must desire, to desire you must love.
Robert Gordon
#78. It was then we found ourselves too many fields away from
where we'd meant to be, with regard to desire, to get there
ever, even if - though this was not the case - we'd been
told the way.
Carl Phillips
#79. Man's mastery over nature, then, is a mastery which has less and less control over itself ... A world where techniques are paramount is a world given over to desire and fear; because every technique is there to serve some desire or fear.2 - Gabriel Marcel
Stephen Batchelor
#80. This is the Eros of thought: to desire everything. It wants to leave nothing out. Thought is curious and is driven by the desire to know. It wants to draw aside the veils of illusion and see what reality conceals. Words, images and ideas are its instruments of illumination. Yet
John O'Donohue
#81. I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
Alice Hoffman
#82. Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Mencius
#84. If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Voltaire
#85. What am I to do, what can any woman do, when her husband is such a fool as to desire a woman for a moment, rather than the woman he is pledged to for eternity?
Philippa Gregory
#86. Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and kindly receives them, and dedicates them to the Father by a solemn act of blessing.
John Calvin
#87. Even hearing him say those words thrilled her. She wanted him to possess her. To desire her. To ravish her. She no longer had any resistance against him. He could do as he pleased and she would give in.
Audra Claire
#88. It's so much better to desire than to have.
Anouk Aimee
#89. It's human to want what we need, and it's human to desire what we don't need but find desirable.
Fernando Pessoa
#90. I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
Peter McWilliams
#91. I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.
William Gibson
#92. It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.
Henry Van Dyke
#93. Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
Helen Fisher
#94. The Way to think we have enough, is not to desire to have too much.
Thomas Fuller
#95. It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.
Rod Stryker
#96. By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.
Virginia Postrel
#97. I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
Brian Molko
#98. To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.
Thomas Merton
#99. The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.
Robert Jordan
#100. When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is known. I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
