Desire Quotes

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Ovid

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

Publilius Syrus

Desire is the very essence of man.

Benedict de Spinoza

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

Persius

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle

Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain it.

Durante degli Alighieri

The true servants of God are not solicitous that He should order them to do what they desire to do, but that they may desire to do what He orders them to do.

St. Augustine of Hippo

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Francis Bacon

I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Fred Astaire

We none of us know what is going on in that strange man's mind. We all know the German desire as he has come out with in his book [Mein Kampf] to move East, and if he moves East, I shall not break my heart, but that is another thing. I do not believe he wants to move West, because West would be a very difficult programme for him ... If there is any fighting in Europe to be done, I should like to see the Bolsheviks and Nazis doing it.

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire