Unknown Desires Quotes

#1. Ransie was a narrow six feet of sallow brown skin and yellow hair. The imperturbability of the mountains hung upon him like a suit of armor. The woman was calicoed, angled, snuff-brushed, and weary with unknown desires. Through it all gleamed a faint protest of cheated youth unconscious of its loss.

O. Henry

#2. Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.

Mark Forsyth

#3. To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

John Arbuthnot

#4. From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and ... the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. To live in joy and fully manifest our true potential, we must let go of our desires and attachment to the past and the future and be excited about living in the unknown.

Mada Eliza Dalian

#6. I'll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.

Anne Sexton

#7. The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

Carl Jung