Desire Quotes - Page 24

• When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

  Paracelsus

  Men, Heaven, Earth

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.45, Princeton University Press

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• I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Thinking, Demand

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• One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.

  Osamu Dazai

  Lonely, Earthquakes, Waiting

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• I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.

  Osamu Dazai

  Liars, Philosophy, People

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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• The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Differences, Tests

  Leon Trotsky (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.605, Haymarket Books

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• The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Goal, World, Bucks

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• You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

  Raimund Abraham

  Office, Needs, Pieces

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• My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.

  Bruce Feiler

  Names, Stories, Shapes

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• I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.

  Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Longing, Longing For Death, Loses

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• There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

  Karen Essex

  World, Entanglement, Agree

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• The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.

  Michael Meade

  Imagination, Soul, Touched

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• For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ends, Finality

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1143, Book House

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• If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.666, Modern Library

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• I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Bows, Wells, Unsatisfied

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

  Nate Silver

  Heart, People, Hitting

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• Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

  LeCrae

  Prayer, Praying, Burden

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• Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.

  Tyler Cowen

  Art, Believe, Book

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• We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark

  Strong, Justice, Feelings

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark (2011). “The Ox-Bow Incident”, p.30, Modern Library

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• Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Fire, Wheels, Environment

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• A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Curiosity

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• The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have desires; it is only your mind's objectivisation. It is your own mind's play which imagines that an object-call it the mind or whatever-can hold onto you. It is the idea you have of who you are that is holding onto its own fearful projections as the mind. Leave all of this and remain as the pure, joyous Self.

  Mooji

  Self, Play, Ideas

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• [T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.

  Michel Foucault

  Simple, Thinking, Law

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.81, Vintage

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• If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

  Abraham Lincoln

  Firsts, Slave, Should

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.343, Fordham Univ Press

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• Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.

  Dallas Willard

  People, Priorities, Wish

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• The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Jobs, People, Google

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