3,482 Quotes About Desire

Sometimes something you've been looking for for hours or days suddenly appears in front of you, as if the universe grabbed what you were looking for and brought it to you personally, this is because you wanted so much to find what you were looking for!

You wondered, when she came along, if this was what most people got to experience in their lives: a straight line from want to satisfaction; desire manifested and satisfied in reasonable succession. This had never been the case before; it had always been fraught. How many times had you said, 'If I just looked a little different, I'd be drowning in love'? Now you got to drown without needing to change a single cell. Lucky you.

You wanted someone to be obsessed with you. How could you accomplish that?

How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?

In life, it helps to know what you want.

Who never wanted, ― maddest joyRemains to him unknown ;The banquet of abstemiousnessSurpasses that of wine.Within its hope, though yet ungraspedDesire's perfect goal,No nearer, lest realityShould disenthrall thy soul.

You should never do something you don't desire, even when it's someone you love who asks you. Going against our desires is profoundly immoral!

Most of our desires tend to reveal their pettiness a few months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or even seconds, after they have been fulfilled.

Reality is at least a billion trillions times less malleable than our desires.