Desire Quotes

“It is easy to despise what you cannot get.”

“If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”

“All I wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be a songwriter. I wanted to be a star.”

“It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only to gratify it.”

“I want to see my longing fulfilled, or I want to see it die.”

“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.”

“We begin by coveting what we see every day.”

“There are things that are hidden from us, and the more we want to see them, the more they are hidden.”

“You've got to want it. You've got to want to make that play more than the other guy.”

“A man is happy, not if he lives in the way he wishes, but if he wishes for what is right.”

“Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air, Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair... And I will give thee what thou askest me.”

“I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.”

“You must do what you want to do.”

“Destiny has two ways to ruin us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”

“I have this toothache of a desire to make a painting that is all of a piece, a single thing.”

“She had the face of all people who love the impossible.”

“After you get what you want you don't want it.”

“The day of satiety is never the biggest. The best day is a day of thirst.”

“I write of the wish that comes true, for some reason, a terrifying concept.”

“If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.”