Desire Quotes

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied, must admit those of fancy.

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

There’s more glory in subduing our wild desires, than an embattl’d foe.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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.

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Where desire doth bear the sway – the heart must rule, the head obey.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.