He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder...

I’m sure you’ve heard people talk about their Heart’s Desire—well that’s a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They’re big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon...

I’m just not going to do it so that we can say that we’ve done it. And I’m not going to do it if the first thing you say afterwards is ‘please don’t tell anyone’...

I feel life trembling within me, in my tongue, on the soles of my feet, in my desire or my suffering, I want my soul to be a wandering thing, able to move back into...

No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through night or day, cathedral or the caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds.

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

Can you still want something you already have? Absolutely. Everyday.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

Phaedra keeps saying she’s being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can’t deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his.” “And have...

Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in...

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we’re afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

It’s precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.

Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

Successful individuals desire things, and then get busy turning them into realities, while a lot of unsuccessful people wish from things, but then spend the rest of their lives wishing for them.

If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re...

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic,...

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

I’ve wanted you from the moment we met, and if you think sitting next to me in your bra doesn’t overwhelm me with desire, you’re very wrong. I just don’t force myself where I’m not...

Desire great things in life.Expect great things in life.

As if one could do what one wanted with one’s own body!

It is my hope and desire that they hold to the Tuesday deadline, and I am hoping that they take it as a sign that they must finish their work, … Late Edition.

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms,...

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

… Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart.

It’s about people who still are unaware. Therefore they strive to live by all means: love like no one before them loved, believe like no one ever believed, desire like no one else ever desired…

It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one….

Desire creates a starting point. Without it, no magic can be put into action.

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the...

[…] vous savez bien que je n’en voudrai pas de cet homme car je ne veux que ce que je ne peux pas avoir, comme vous par exemple, je vous veux parce je ne vous...

Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed vil­lages, kid­napped princesses.

I had a dream that Zac Effron showed up at my door shirtless with a bouquet of flowers..yep, I’m still waiting on that one to come true.

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

The heart knows not of distance, space nor time. It meshes to the fabric of its desire & follows on an immeasurable continuum.

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its...

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world...

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...

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

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls...

Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.

Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop beating? I am longing now, but for whom I don’t know. My whole...

Olympia thinks often about desire – desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence – and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve...

Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.

DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.Sir Lavender Portwine, in favor at court, Was wroth at his master, who’d kissed Lady Port. His anger provoked...

As the Internet becomes more tightly woven into everyday life, an increasing number of consumers will desire the applications and services it can provide. Current online users want access to services in more locations and...

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage’s arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He...

It is the link between satisfaction and redress–the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy–that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire–make it literally...