Quotes About Desire

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Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Dan Brown

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Federico García Lorca

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Jess C. Scott

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

Henry David Thoreau

These individuals have riches just as we say that we have a fever, when really the fever has us.

The personal self by its very nature is constantly pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. The ending of this pattern is the ending of the self. The ending of the self with its desires and fears enables you to return to your real nature, the source of all happiness and peace.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Naval Ravikant

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Diogenes

When there's someone that you want, when there's someone that you need let's make it all, all for one and all for love.

Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that 's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.