Desire Quotes - page 6

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. (Thomas Hobbes)
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. View quote
John Tukey
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. View quote
William Butler Yeats
What is it men in women do require The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require The lineaments of gratified desire. View quote
William Blake
Abstinence sows sand all over; The ruddy limbs flaming hair, But Desire Gratified; Plants fruits of life beauty there. View quote
William Blake
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. View quote
William Blake
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. View quote
Democritus
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole. (Aristophanes)
Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. View quote
Peter Senge
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. View quote
Michel Foucault
Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Whether we be young or old, Our destiny, our being's heart and home, Is with infinitude, and only there; With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be. View quote
William Wordsworth
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. View quote
Swami Sivananda
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. View quote
Confucius
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. View quote
Edward Young
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone. View quote
Che Guevara
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. (Brian Tracy)
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. View quote
Francis Quarles
To believe that is we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. View quote
Theodore Parker
Boredom: the desire for desires. View quote
Leo Tolstoy