Desire Quotes - Page 27

• I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of love - which they just can't shake. They take it with them, despite their own desire, and it continually haunts them, and there's nothing to be done about it. That's a true rarity.

  John Maus

  People, Encounters, Events

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.

  Will Oldham

  Long, People, Looks

  Interview with Mike Powell, pitchfork.com. October 10, 2011.

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• Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago, with bizarre stories, peculiar laws, erratic deity, and yet we are able - through argument, selective reading, and desire - to find a powerful framework of laws and moral reasoning that have built a very successful society. So this Bible, for all its oddities and flaws, serves us beautifully after all these years.

  David Plotz

  Powerful, Book, Reading

  "Biblically Speaking". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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• If you don't get the ending you desire.... have faith in the magic of new beginnings.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Magic

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• When you meet the one. It just clicks. Clicking is important in a relationship. When you click, you share the same passion and worldviews, ambitions and dreams. You are willing to share your inner thoughts, fears, desires and secrets. When you click, your partner makes you comfortable in your skin, he or she knows what you need even you're quiet, knows when to give advice and when to just listen. When you click, you allow your partner to steadily be what they desire to be, while you be a steady presence

  Rita Zahara

  Friendship, Dream, Passion

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• O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Dark, Garden

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• Anyone can desire anything, but if you're not going to commit, you're not getting it.

  Cassey Ho

  Commit, Ifs

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• Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Wish, Satisfaction

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• Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Cost, Taste

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.43, Regnery Publishing

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• What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Animal

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• It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Reality, Discovery

  "Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.

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• Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Long, Age, Aging

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• Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Character, Pride

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.305

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• Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
  That every man in arms should wish to be?
  It is the generous spirit, who, when brought
  Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought
  Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought:
  Whose high endeavors are an inward light
  That makes the path before him always bright:
  Who, with a natural instinct to discern
  What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn;
  And in himself posses his own desire

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Real, Warrior

  'Character of the Happy Warrior' (1807)

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• New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

  Moliere

  Love, Seduction, Pleasure

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• Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

  Moliere

  Long, Arms, Mercy

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• Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

  Moliere

  Curiosity, Weakness, Doe

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• Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
  While the world's tide is bearing me along;
  Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
  Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

  Emily Bronte

  Sweet, Maturity, Forgiving

  Emily Bronte, “Remembrance”

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• To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

  Honore de Balzac

  Live Life, Passion, Eye

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• The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Mother, Children, Life And Love

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Hero, Pregnancy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.137, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire;
  For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return
  If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire,
  As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.

  George William Russell

  Dream, Fate, Fire

  George William Russell (1935). “Selected poems”

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• Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

  Rene Descartes

  Thinking, Common Sense, Difficult

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• I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Slavery, Good Things

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.316, Fordham Univ Press

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• Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Giving Up, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.263, Stanford University Press

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