DESIRE QUOTES VII

quotations about desire

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire,
Through ignorance the fish devours the bait,
We men know well the foes that lie in wait,
Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.

BHARTRHARI

"Against the Love of Beauty"


We become decrepit with age, but not so Desire.
Infirmity assails us, the skin wrinkles,
The hair whitens, the body becomes crooked,
Old age comes on.
Desire alone grows younger every day.

BHARTRHARI

"Verses on Renunciation"

Tags: Bhartrhari


The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

BABA HARI DASS

Ashtanga Yoga Primer


She's the dollars
She's my protection
Yeah, she's the promise
In the year of election
Ah, sister, I can't let you go
I'm like a preacher stealing hearts in a traveling show
For the love or money, money
Desire
Desire

U2

"Desire", Rattle and Hum


We are the mediocre,
we are the half givers,
we are the half lovers,
we are the savourless salt.

Break the hard crust
of complacency.
Quicken in us
the sharp grace of desire.

CARYLL HOUSELANDER

attributed, Soul Weavings


The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

COVENTRY PATMORE

The Rod


The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

Think on These Things


Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses


I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit,
I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit,
At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread,
But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.

BHARTRHARI

"Against the Desire of Worldly Things"


If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan


Desire me and want me
That's all I'll ever ask of life
That you will someday come to me
And say that you love me as I love you

SAM COOKE

"Desire Me", The Man Who Invented Soul


But how long before this desperate wickedness overruns the qualms of good people? Before the desire for the smell of cooking meat, the softness of flesh, breaks us all?

CHRIS ABANI

Hands Washing Water


Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

PLATO

Lysis


Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters


The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

JOHN COWPER POWYS

A Glastonbury Romance


God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

PAUL VERNON BUSER

attributed, Webster's Quotations


Desire is oft the morning star of Love,
And Love the Hesper of fulfilled Desire.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan


Wants, like birds, flutter till they have found a place of rest.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims