An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
Desire Quotes
It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us around it, led us past it, and […]
Man wants but little; nor that little, long.
Two things only the people anxiously desire – bread and circuses.
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a hunan being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.
I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
For wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her. (Proverbs 8:11)
