936 Quotes About Desires

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

I wish you great fun with your sacred adventure.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.