Continued observations in clinical psychological practice lead almost inevitably to the conclusion that deeper and more fundamental than sexuality, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possessions, there is a still more generalized and universal craving in the human make-up. It is the craving for knowledge of the right...

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman’s dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort — sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine. This state of affairs, which arose out of a struggle against poverty, overshoots its ultimate goal — the liberation of humanity from material cares — and becomes an obsessive image hanging over the...

Objectives are only words written on paper without passion and desire

I’m talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble

It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?

But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament

Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.

Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some.

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry… makes people compete for the attention.

Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.

Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone’s soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours. ~ Isadora Conti to Grayson van Court

For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do.

Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

I want to love every piece of you. I want to be inside you. I want our bodies together, to make the two of us into one. I want it all, and I want it hard, soft, anything that will make you happy. I want to hold you, keep you safe, make you scream… I...

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I didn’t grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Appetite knows what it craves, without cerebral embellishment. It tends not to waste any time laying hold of its tools. That was the thing I had recognised here: appetite. I recognised it precisely because, in a context like this, it was so unfamiliar. It had forced me to rule out everything else. And there was...

The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will.

We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

Even the moon cannot escape your intoxicating charms…

My storm is my own…Enter if you dare. However, bear in mind that the tempest of desire is fraught with unpredictability from the highest peaks to the depths of the abyss. Do not expect a smooth ride, but expect a true and passionate one…

I want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

Does biblical psychology, then, merely ask us to value good things a little less? Does the Bible seek a reduction of guilt by an overall deflation of the currency of moral ideals, so we can live more comfortably with an uneasy conscience? That would exaggerate a valid point. Although the Bible holds that no finite...

There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.

You start getting satisfied you stop getting better.

If he keeps his desire the way it is, there are no limits for how good he can be. He was dominant from the day he came out. We were well aware we had someone special on our hands.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

A fancy comes to me–that desire can never attain its object–it need never attain it.

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

Pardon me also, and deal mercifully with me, as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess truly that I am accustomed to be very much distracted. Very often I am not where bodily I stand or sit; rather, I am where my thoughts carry me. Where my thoughts are,...

Never forget why you should win or achieve your goals and dreams. Once you feel you are losing purpose in the process, remind yourself why you saw the need to begin in the first place, let that drive you.

Think of it.” Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. “It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn’t want you back … you might as well wish the sky were red.

Let a sweltering heat… love… rose up relentlessly.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Beneath my dress is a ladder of desire,that I climb tonight and each night after that.

The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.(from The structure of desire and recognition)

I love to dance. But I don’t like being up in front of tons of people. I didn’t have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn’t something I ever seriously considered.

I began with the desire to speak with the dead.

Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity

I am gazing– desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children.

Don’t you know romance is mind’s way of getting rid of it’s own duality?

Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

There is a difference between desire and desperation.