Desire Quotes - page 12

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. (Arnold J. Toynbee)
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. View quote
Alexis Carrel
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. View quote
William Godwin
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. View quote
Edward Sapir
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. View quote
Michael Korda
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony. View quote
Danny Elfman
Sooner or later, each desire must encounter its lassitude: its truth... View quote
Emil Cioran
Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone. View quote
Emil Cioran
We replace God as best we can; for every god is good, provided he perpetuates in eternity our desire for a crucial solitude.... (Emil Cioran)
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; - for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret. View quote
Emil Cioran
Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire... View quote
Robert Graves
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it. View quote
Cesare Pavese
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Love is desire for knowledge. View quote
Cesare Pavese
The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself. View quote
Stephen Harper
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. (Joseph Addison)
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. View quote
Joseph Addison
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire to our sons, ambition but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. View quote
Joseph Addison
Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire. View quote
Georges Bataille
My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul. View quote
Robert E. Howard