Desire Quotes

Desire Quotes

Desire refers to an unconscious driving force. In psychoanalytic theory, the process of socialization is characterized by lack of fulfillment in various respects. This lack produces desire. It is the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state or it can also be thought of as the crave for something. It is important that you have desires and ambitions. A desire is the first stage of achieving something. When the passion and design to desire something is in place then it becomes your ambition. These quotes signify the importance to have desires and they also emphasize on the fact that desires should never come to an end as when you stop wanting something then you loose the very purpose of living. They can also be used to infuse the feeling that one should desire and then have the ability to turn this desire into an ambition.

Desire is the essence of a man.
Benedict Spinoza
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
Henry George
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard
One must desire something to be alive.
Margaret Deland
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Aristotle
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Sheila Graham
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
Horace

Desire is the very essence of man.
Benedict de Spinoza
Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
William Shakespeare
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
Alexander Graham Bell
We pursue that which retreats from us.
Martin Hiedegger
I do desire we may be better strangers.
William Shakespeare
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Bible
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

It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.
Anouk Aimee
Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare
All human activity is prompted by desire.
Bertrand Russell
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Allen
It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most
Buck Williams
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Mark Twain
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Francis
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Aristotle
More than we use is more than we want.
Gaelic Proverb
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
Joseph Wood Krutch
There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
Belva Plain
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
Edgar F. Roberts
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.
Paul Vernon Buser
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Marcel Proust
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
James Russell Lowell
The wise man will love; all others will desire.
Afranius
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Publilius Syrus
Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
William Shakespeare
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Italian Proverb
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Aristotle
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Stanley Kunitz
Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh-- To join blest spirits in celestial lands!
Francesco Petrarch
He who desires is always poor.
Claudianus
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
Ovid
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander A. Bogomoletz
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Sir James M. Barrie
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
Persius
Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.
William Shakespeare
Desire creates the power.
Raymond Holliwell