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Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as the great gust of agitation which, now and then, sweeps over the human spirit. For then the creature in whose company we are seeking amusement at the moment, her lot is cast, her fate and ours decided, that is the creature whom we shall henceforward love. It is not necessary that she should have pleased us, up till then, any more, or even as much as others. All that is necessary is that our taste for her should become exclusive. And that condition is fulfilled so soon as - in the moment when she has failed to meet us - for the pleasure which we were on the point of enjoying in her charming company is abruptly substituted an anxious torturing desire, whose object is the creature herself, an irrational, absurd desire, which the laws of civilised society make it impossible to satisfy and difficult to assuage - the insensate, agonising desire to possess her.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.
— Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies
Inherent in every living thing is an insatiable hunger, the innate desire to express life by freely and fully being “what” it was uniquely created to be. To personalize this, consider the possibility that there was a time when you were a “what” before you were a “who.” If you can wrap your mind around that possibility, then, the question to explore is, what were you before you became a who—and why did you become the who you uniquely are when there are so many other “who”s on the planet you might have been? While this may seem like a bit of a paradoxi- cal tongue twister, it is the quintessential question that requires exploration if you are to follow your true North Star back to your point of origin, where you’ll find your authentic self waiting to weave itself into the fabric of your human life today and every day.
— Dennis Merritt Jones, Your Redefining Moments: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
Where can we find a worshiper who envy a sparrow or a swallow just because of their uninterrupted access to God's altar (Psalm 84:3). Our Genuineness in worship is not revealed by our physical presence in the church but by our desire of being in His Presence always and behold Him (Psalm 84:10).
— Santosh Thankachan
He made what apology he could and hurried home, overjoyed that the satisfaction of his curiosity had preserved their love intact, and that, having feigned for so long, when in Odette's company, a sort of indifference, he had not now, by a demonstration of jealousy, given her that proof of the excess of his own passion which, in a pair of lovers, fully and finally dispenses the recipient from the obligation to love the other enough. He never spoke to her of this misadventure, he cased even to think of it himself. But now and then his thoughts in their wandering course would come upon this memory where it lay unobserved, would startle it into life, thrust it more deeply down into his consciousness, and leave him aching with a sharp, far-rooted pain.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted
— Mary Renault, The Charioteer
... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart.
— Marcel Proust
It is the link between satisfaction and redress--the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy--that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire--make it literally unreal--with pictures of its satisfaction. Pornography, for example, can easily be used, among many other things, to pre-empt the elaboration of erotic fantasy; it can be, in Masud Kahn's words, 'the stealer of dreams'. To put it in old-fashioned Freudian language, fantasies of satisfaction are defences against desiring, the attempt in fantasy to take the risk out of desire; or to put it in more Kleinian language, fantasies of satisfaction are attacks upon desire; they are, in fact, against desiring, both up against it and in opposition to it. Our fantasies of satisfaction are clues to our fears about desiring. Wishful fantasies are the original sins of omission.
— Adam Phillips
African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work.
— Sunday Adelaja
The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how the impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
— Anne Carson
I want to need you.
— Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
to succeed at anything, you must want it very much. Desire must be in evidence in order to attract
— William Walker Atkinson, Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World
You can't get what you want, if the intentions are solely directed for self-benefits.
— Ashish Patel
Fuck! The things she does to me with a simple kiss.
— Rene Webb, Finding Sunshine
Nothing turned a man on faster than a woman that couldn't get enough of what he had to offer.
— Rose Wynters, My Wolf Fighter
Who ask don't getwho don't ask don't wantwho don't want don't getwho don't getdon't care
— Merle Hodge
But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.
— Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,A puff of opium,And thee.
— Roman Payne
You get in life that which is your deep driving desire.
— Debasish Mridha
Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
You see, I know you, Violet. You've tormented me in my dreams with your body too many times to count. Now you're here in the flesh, with your ripe curves and innocent eyes, an angel hidden in the body of a temptress.
— Rose Wynters, The Vampire's House of Pleasure: Part Two
I'm more than a kiss on you worst day, I'm a kiss on your best." - Dr. Jeremy Nichols, Merger Complete
— Heather M. Miles
He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him. In the body there is no absolute, or free, will, but the body is determined to desire this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.
— Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars
She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim
— Earl Lovelace
His new friends did not, perhaps, realize the overpowering effect of the sudden change upon this northernbred man; the effects of the moonlight and the soft trade-wind, the life of love which surrounded him here. Love whispered to him vaguely, compellingly. It summoned him from the palm fronds, rustling dryly in the continuous breeze; love was telegraphed through the shy, bovine eyes of the brown girls in his estate-house village; love assailed him in the breath of the honey-like sweet grass, undulating all day and all night under the white moonlight of the Caribbees, pouring over him intoxicatingly through his opened jalousies as he lay, often sleepless, through long nights of spice and balm smells on his mahogany bedstead—pale grass, looking like snow under the moon.The half-formulated yearnings which these sights and sounds were begetting were quite new and fresh in his experience. Here fresh instincts, newly released, stirred, flared up, at the glare of early-afternoon sunlight, at the painful scarlet of the hibiscus blooms, the incredible indigo of the sea—all these flames of vividness through burning days, wilting into a caressing coolness, abruptly, at the fall of the brief, tropic dusk. The fundament of his crystallizing desire was for companionship in the blazing life of this place of rapid growth and early fading, where time slipped away so fast.("Sweet Grass")
— Henry S. Whitehead
Some daughter of one of the gentry planters, perhaps? Those girls had the domestic virtues. But — he was comfortable enough with his good servants at Fairfield House. His yearnings had little relation to somebody to preside over his household. Somehow, to Cornelis, these young ladies of the planter gentry were not alluring, vital. The most attractive of them, Honoria Macartney, he could hardly imagine beside him perpetually. Honoria had the dead-white skin of the Caucasian creole lady whose face has been screened from the sun since infancy.("Sweet Grass")
— Henry S. Whitehead, Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales
The warm, pulsing breath of the sweet grass surged through the open windows in a fashion to turn the head of a stone image. It was exotic, too sweet, exaggerated, like everything else in this climate! Cornelis turned over again, seeking a cool place on the broad bed. Then he sat up in bed, impatiently throwing off the sheet. A thin streak of moonlight edged the bed below his feet. He slipped out of bed, walked over to a window. He leaned out, looking down at the acres of undulating grass. There seemed to be some strange, hypnotic rhythm to it, some vague magic, as it swayed in the night wind. The scent poured over him in great, pulsing breaths. He shut his eves and drew it in, abandoning his senses to its effect.("Sweet Grass")
— Henry S. Whitehead, Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales
I am gazing-- desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children.
— Suman Pokhrel
Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity
— Suman Pokhrel
My whole desire is to burn myself away.
— Hafiz of Shiraz
I'm not going to touch her," he said "She's not mine.She never will be.""Indeed." Bruiser rolled his eyes and dusted off his hat. "Definitely no years of pent-up lusting there. Glad we have that sorted.
— Tessa Dare, Say Yes to the Marquess
We only have one desire, which wants to manifest in thousands of ways,like a flower who blooms in billions of shadesto express her only one desire...to be beautiful
— Debasish Mridha
Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means.
— Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips
I wrapped my arms around him like I was saving an oak tree.
— C.J. English, Affairytale
This was to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some even greater variation, that she did not pass through those abnormal hours in which one thirsts for something different from what one has, when those people who, through lack of energy or imagination, are unable to generate any motive power in themselves, cry out, as the clock strikes or the postman knocks, in their eagerness for news (even if it be bad news), for some emotion (even that of grief); when the heartstrings, which prosperity has silenced, like a harp laid by, yearn to be plucked and sounded again by some hand, even a brutal hand, even if it shall break them; when the will, which has with such difficulty brought itself to subdue to its impulse, to renounce its right to abandon itself to its own uncontrolled desires, and consequent sufferings, would fain cast its guiding reins into the hands of circumstances, coercive and, it may be, cruel.
— Marcel Proust
There is nothing I want but your presence.In friendship, time dissolves.Life is a cup. This connectionis pure wine. What else are cups for?I used to have twenty thousanddifferent desires.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart
Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least expect to find it.
— Alice Hoffman
For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do.
— Randolph Bourne, The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918
He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs
— Alice Hoffman, Turtle Moon
The flame of urgent coupling burned hottest against the woman, no matter how romantic and high and heartsick the anguish of the man might be pitched in retrospect.
— Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
Successful individuals desire things, and then get busy turning them into realities, while a lot of unsuccessful people wish from things, but then spend the rest of their lives wishing for them.
What was desire anyway, when examined in the clear light of day? Was it the way a woman searched for her clothes in the morning, or the manner in which a man might watch her sit before the mirror and comb her hair? Was it a pale November dawn, when ice formed on windowpanes and crows called from the bare black trees? Or was it the way a person might yield to the night, setting forth on a path so unexpected that daylight would never again be completely clear?
— Alice Hoffman
The way in which art creates desire, I guess that’s everywhere. Is there anyone who hasn’t come out of a movie or a play or a concert filled with an unnameable hunger? … To stand in front of one of [Louis Sullivan’s] buildings and look up, or in front, say, of the facade of Notre Dame, is both to have a hunger satisfied that you maybe didn’t know you had, and also to have a new hunger awakened in you. I say “unnameable,” but there’s a certain kind of balance achieved in certain works of art that feels like satiety, a place to rest, and there are others that are like a tear in the cosmos, that open up something raw in us, wonder or terror or longing. I suppose that’s why people who write about aesthetics want to distinguish between the beautiful and sublime… Beauty sends out ripples, like a pebble tossed in a pond, and the ripples as they spread seem to evoke among other things a stirring of curiosity. The aesthetic effect of a Vermeer painting is a bit like that. Some paradox of stillness and motion. Desire appeased and awakened.
— Robert Haas
The ability to engage the reader, to stir feelings deep within their being, is the ultimate goal of erotic fiction. When the reader takes the place of the characters in my story, I have succeeded
— Sasha Holden, Sarah: Malcolm's Prize
I want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.
— Sanober  Khan
You just have too little faith, Estella...in yourself and in God. Don't assume that because He didn't give you one thing you wanted, He isn't ready to give you something else you might want more. He knows our desires better than we do, after all.
— Dawn Crandall, The Captive Imposter
Beneath the moons' shadowscape, wisdom, women, whiskey and you are a dangerous and provocative combination...
— Virginia Alison
You know what?” he whispered, out of breath, “You’re about to be in a whole lot of trouble. We probably better go.
— Laney Smith, Lock Creek: One Year's Time
I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.
— Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
— Alexander Zalan, Pavilion of Thoughts
Mr. Pembroke, watching his broad back, desired to bury a knife in it. The desire passed, partly because it was unclerical, partly because he had no knife, and partly because he soon blurred over what had happened. To him all criticism was "rudeness": he never heeded it, for he never needed it: he was never wrong.
— E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey
Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn’t want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature.
— Ann Brashares
Her endless, futile attempts to make her feelings known fell on stony ground. Slowly she retreated into the darkness where her dreams became reality and reality faded into the deep recesses of her soul....
— Virginia Alison
O bid these strangers go ;Turn to my lips till their cup overflow ;Hurt me with kisses, kill me with desire,Consume me and destroy me with the fireOf bleeding passion straining at the heart,Touched to the core by sweetnesses that smart ;Bitten by fiery snakes, whose poisonous breathSwoons in the midnight, and dissolves to death !
— Aleister Crowley, Jezebel, and other tragic poems
I'll write while I'm breathing.
— Alexander Zalan, Pavilion of Thoughts
Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorgeous moments have passed towards your eyes, while you're waiting for the best shot to reveal yourself
— Alexander Zalan
Our dreams wrapped in desire let us fly high enough to get the reward.
— Kishore Bansal
While a man desires a woman,His mind is boundAs closely as a calf to its mother.As you would pluck an autumn lily,Pluck the arrow of desire.
— Dhammapada
His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers.
— Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order
Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Let me learn your interests and share them, tell me of your hopes and together we will attain them, and desire for nothing because as long as you're mine, if you should call forth the stars, I'll bring them down to you.
— Christi Caldwell, Once a Wallflower, At Last His Love
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation....When I say 'I will be true to you' I must mean it in spite of the formalities, instead of the formalities.
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled
— E.M. Forster
Let the mechanics of desire bring your fulfilment without interference.the more you interfere, the less likely you will get what you want.
— Deepak Chopra
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
— Jane Smiley
On the third day Vera said:'I love your body because it is beautiful. But I do not know your soul. I do not know whether there is a soul. Nor is it necessary for me because your body is beautiful.But everything is mutable and you will grow old. At first your face will grow old. Your body will live longer. An old face will be a mockery before a youthful body. And then a wasted body will be a mockery to ravenous desires.This is like the dead light of the setting sun which from the clouds above was reflected in the water... feeble and full of disillusion.Should I not kill you so that I might always possess you for myself.'And Vera became terrifying.I found this unpleasant.But from these words I understood that she had decided upon the day.("Thirty-Three Abominations")
— Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal, The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology
We feel secure with things we can see or touch.
— Deepak Chopra
With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and which he had never noticed before, when he was a minister. Now of course, after he's been released, he doesn't notice the birds anymore, just as beforehand. In the same way you won't notice Moscow, when you actually live there.
— Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses
—  which revived her spirits a litle.
What', said he, ' makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every beast that strays beside me has the same corporeal necessities with myself; he is hungry and crops the grass, he is thirsty and drinks the stream, his thirst and hunger are appeased, he is satisfied and sleeps; he rises again and is hungry, he is again fed and is at rest. I am hungry and thirsty like him, but when thirst and hunger cease I am not at rest; I am, like him, pained with want, but am not, like him, satisfied with fullness. The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy; I long again to be hungry that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves where they sit in seeming happiness on the branches, and waste their lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds. I likewise can call the lutanist and the singer, but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me today, and will grow yet more wearisome tomorrow. I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man has surely some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.
— Samuel Johnson
Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster.
— William Gomes
I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.
— Rachel Cusk, Outline
If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water.
— Simone Weil
Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn't a bad thing. It's when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Death Before Daylight
If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.
— Marty Rubin
There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.
— Steve Goodier
The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
He was looking at her with that intense blazing gaze – the one that made her feel she was the only woman in the world. Oh God, don’t let him get to her. She’d tried to raise her defences against him, but he was so very attractive – almost irresistible. It would be easy to admit defeat…
— Emily Arden, Lie to me: Deception: Book Two
His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Death Before Daylight
Sometimes what we lack is the thrill of anticipation or the delay of gratification. We enjoy things far more when we've really desired them but had to wait for them. The real value is found in our self control and patience, which allows us to delay gratification and build anticipation. Letting desire build is an abstract way to achieve balance and moderation in your life... Moderation just may be the answer to boredom - go figure! -- pg 145-146
— Cristin Frank
The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God’s standards.
— Jim George, The Remarkable Prayers of the Bible: Transforming Power for Your Life Today
He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear of its own fulfilment, with the mysterious shiver felt when something endlessly desired suddenly comes physically close to the astonished heart.
— Stefan Zweig
How much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve the level of success you desire?
— Sherman Morris
Let me tell you what I want,' he said fiercely. 'For a start, I want you. I told you that, but perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I want the whole package, hang-ups, fears and phobias, as well as the good parts.
— Joanna Mansell, Portrait of Cleo
If we don't currently have what we so desire, then we must become a different person. Beliefs and thought patterns is the road to victory.
— Matthew Donnelly
He is insatiable in love. His wife is a great cook.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
When we free ourselves from desire, we will know serenity and freedom.
— Guatama Buddha
90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials.
— Auliq Ice
Think of it." Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. "It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat.
— Stephen Kiernan
Love is the essence of life,Love is the universal language of all creation,Love is the eternal desire,Love is the life's flower with fragrance to share,So feel the longing for love and being beloved.
— Debasish Mridha
In Freud’s story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we can’t let ourselves feel our frustration – and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do – we can’t get a sense of what it is we might be wanting, and missing, of what might really give us pleasure.
— Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
Over the boundary of time,Hope transcends,Desire sings,One verse,One song,And that is the song of happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.
— Debasish Mridha
As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless.
— Debasish Mridha
The desire to learn is valuable, but the desire for an education is priceless.
— Debasish Mridha
To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.
— Debasish Mridha
To teach, ignite the fire of desire to learn.
— Debasish Mridha
There's the good girl leading a charmed life who secretly covets to be the rare and elusive femme fatale and the femme fatale who yearns to be good and then there is their nemesis - men who dream and desire both.
— Donna Lynn Hope
When a desire is deep, it reaches the subconscious mind and calls for cultivation of qualities that will help fulfill desires, and this is what transforms an ordinary person into a great leader.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.
— Rabih Alameddine
..... desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.
— Ilsa J. Bick, The Sin-Eater's Confession
There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it.What our contempts doth often hurl from us,We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,By revolution lowering, does becomeThe opposite of itself. She's good, being gone.The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.
— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .
— Sameh Elsayed
I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: 'Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;' or maybe just: 'Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.'And then smile very serenely until they say, 'Oh.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Who can ever hold the essence of fire?Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?
— Tarun J. Tejpal, The Alchemy of Desire
What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
When man is finally able to see himself and the world around him with clear cognition, he finds a picture far more pleasant. Visible in unmistakable clarity and devastating detail is man’s failure to be what he might be and his misuse of his world. This revelation causes him to leap out in search of a way of life and system of values which will enable him to be more than he has been. He seeks a foundation of self-respect, which will have value system rooted in knowledge and cosmic reality where he expresses himself so that all others, all beings can continue to exist. His values now are of a different order from those at previous levels: They arise not from selfish interest but from the recognition of the magnificence of existence and the desire that it shall continue to be.
— Clare W. Graves
I fall into him like one would fall into a dream, ready to submit to your subconscious's inner most desires and your deepest fears.
— Stephanie Binding, Desolate
I was still madly in love with her when I left her but the desire had died, and not all the years of sharing and caring and discovering and journeying could keep me from fleeing.
— Tarun J. Tejpal, The Alchemy of Desire
We don't really want to get what we think that we want.I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress.You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation. It was not to live with the mistress, but to keep her as a distance as on object of desire about which you dream.This is not an excessive example, I claim this is how things function. We don't really want what we think we desire
— Slavoj Žižek
Fizz had a phrase for those manic occasions when you scaled every final peak, fell off the other side and passed out. Mightysatiety. The oblivion of maximum pleasure.
— Tarun J. Tejpal, The Alchemy of Desire
DICK’S DESIREDick's eyes-Soft, cold, and blue-Meet Devonshire's-Dark, sexy, and yearning.Turning away-Dick grabs two packets of sugar-While Devonshire's eyes-Are still upon him-Pondering his every move.Is Dick a playboy,A ladies' man,A mans' man,Or a killer?Does his sex long for,Something hard-Or something soft?Does he need cream in his coffee-The screaming splash of a man,Or the sweet flow of a woman?Finishing up at the bar-Dick turns to leave-Meets Devonshire's gaze again-Hot, thirsty, and longing-But full of trepidation.Following the flow of etiquette-Dick shoots out of the cafe,Past Devonshire,And into a world of dashed hopes,And regrets.But Devonshire-No longer of two worlds-Rises in pursuit-Goes after Dick,And taps him on the shoulder.Dick gives a turn,Raises his shoulders,And smiles with interest-Taking Devonshire's hand,And asking his name.Devonshire answers-Desire.Dick invites Devonshire to dinner,Where he eats everything,Swallowing Dick's life stories,And devouring his misgivings.For dessert,Devonshire takes Dick home,Into his bed,Against his flesh,And gives Dick all of him-His deepest desires,The love in his eyes,And the fire in his soul.
— Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love
Maybe – let’s not rule it out – this will be the song that cuts clean, the one that matters, the one that sheds standard-issue romance and reveals, under its old skin, a raw blood-red devotion deeper than comfort, a desire profounder than schoolboy satisfaction, a yearning cold and immaculate and unstoppable as snow.
— Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
The forces of desire that sway man's mind are the forces that will eventually destroy him, while a singular love that roots his heart makes him invincible
— Prabhukrishna M
We went to places where we felt - like all lovers - that we were the first.We discovered the body of a lover has secrets that never end.We discovered that at times the same secrets reveal different truths.
— Tarun J. Tejpal, The Alchemy of Desire
I love silent conversations accompanied by a soft caress on my skin and my head on your chest listening to your heart desires.
— Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Your life, your world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In Clint's arms, Josie discovered what the kiss of a man should feel like. Fire: unadulterated, skin-scorching, tummy twisting, panty wetting fire. He kissed her as if she were the most desirable woman in existence. He devoured her lips as if they were the most decadent treat imaginable. And when he pressed her against the hardness of his desire - for me - she mewled in want.
— Eve Langlais, Scared of Spiders
The paradox is that without desire, we cannot be successful. When we are striving for desires that will give us what we want and enrich the lives of the people around us directly or indirectly, the Universe works with us to manifest it.
— Malti Bhojwani, Don't Think Of a Blue Ball
If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing “freedom of choice,” then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.
— Geoffrey Wood
They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves.
— Geoffrey Wood
If God’s suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat’s sunk, still sitting on the trailer in the driveway. A stack of things need to happen before I desire to be good…
— Geoffrey Wood, Leaper: The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero
Desire activates the potential that was coined within you. You cannot unleash your potential without stepping up your desire to succeed...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Amongst it all my soul craved one thing, Love, for it was the beginning and end of anything that will ever truly matter.
— Nikki Rowe
The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams by night, calling to him and pleading with him to unlock the chains he'd bound about it.
— David Weber, Oath of Swords
All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
A perfect night... a perfect forever
— Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
Desire, Desire, Desire!Desire to love,Desire to live,Desire to learn,Desire to dream,Desire to give,Desire to forgive,Desire to grow.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.
— Sandra Lee Dennis, Love and the Mystery of Betrayal
We all are bundles of electric waves or streams of particles – proton, neutron, and electrons. If a piece of metal can be transformed into electric or magnetic waves, so can a string of sound, a thought, and a desire.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
You can always get exactly what you desire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky thoroughfare, as I was borne onward with the crowd past the great electric-lighted shops, a holy Indifference filled my thoughts. Illusion had faded from me; I was not touched by any desire for the goods displayed in those golden windows, nor had I the smallest share in the appetites and fears of all those moving and anxious faces. And as I listened with Asiatic detachment to the London traffic, its sound changed into something ancient and dissonant and sad—into the turbid flow of that stream of Craving which sweeps men onward through the meaningless cycles of Existence, blind and enslaved forever. But I had reached the farther shore, the Harbour of Deliverance, the Holy City; the Great Peace beyond all this turmoil and fret compassed me around. Om Mani padme hum—I murmured the sacred syllables, smiling with the pitying smile of the Enlightened One on his heavenly lotus.Then, in a shop-window, I saw a neatly fitted suit-case. I liked that suit-case; I desired to possess it. Immediately I was enveloped by the mists of Illusion, chained once more to the Wheel of Existence, whirled onward along Oxford Street in that turbid stream of wrong-belief, and lust, and sorrow, and anger.
— Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia
Never fear to ask what you truly want. You will always get exactly what you desire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I’m talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
You can be all that you wish and desire to be.Take the challenge and pursue your most cherished dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Delight yourself in the Lord.He shall give you all the desires of your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The power of desire is a divine.Desire to live by faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When i was a child , i thought ,the moon was a banana,the full moon was a big cake.when i was a child ,i never saw the moon;i only saw what i wanted to see.and now i see the moon.it's only the moon. -sushil
— Sushil Singh, System dynamics: a practical approach for managerial problems
You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book
— Emily Gowor, The Book Within You: The Aspiring Author's Guide to Bringing the Book Within You, Out
We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
You can get what you want. You have to passionately seek the life you desire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of first love. Those first few weeks in Paris, we barely touched lips; yet the few times we did, it had the force of a collision of stars.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
The emotion you feel is always about the vibrational variance between where you want to be and where you are. If you're out of balance, there are only two ways to bring yourself into alignment: Either raise your expectation to match your desire -or lower your desire to match your expectation.
— Abraham Hicks
they comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love is differentwith each the absence of love is the same
— Samuel Beckett, Selected Poems 1930-1988
Desire is a chameleon.He blends into the brickwork and the rocks of those lanes and pathways down which we walk. He lurks like a highwayman at the crossroads of our lives, waiting to rob us of our reason.And he does so for sport.
— John Dolan, A Poison Tree
(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason's most important occupations? Still more, how little cause have we to place trust in our reason if in one of the most important parts of our desire for knowledge it does not merely forsake us but even entices us with delusions and in the end betrays us! Or if the path has merely eluded us so far, what indications may we use that might lead us to hope that in renewed attempts we will be luckier than those who have gone before us?
— Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
IF a woman has manifested her love or desire, either by signs or by motions of the body,and is afterwards rarely or never seen anywhere, or if a woman is met for the first time,the man should get a go-between to approach her.
— Mallanaga Vātsyāyana, Kama Sutra
Desire is the foundation of our greatness. Without it, we are stranded; we cannot go anywhere. You won't get, what you don't eagerly desire.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
She was a truth that had filled his every moment.
— Michelle M. Pillow, The Dragon's Queen
It isn'y explanations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
The outcome should not drive the action. Your desire to achieve the outcome should. The outcome depends on many variables, most of which are not in your control. Do what you need to do because you want to do it, not because of whether or not the outcome will be achieved.
— Murad S. Shah
I had a dream that Zac Effron showed up at my door shirtless with a bouquet of flowers..yep, I’m still waiting on that one to come true.
— Starley Ard, Dreaming is for lovers
You are not in Disneyland,” he said. “The little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them before they kill you, then you have a good chance of getting through your year of service here.
— Walter Dean Myers, Fallen Angels
Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God’s plans.
— Elizabeth George
When we say forever, we are talking about a desire.
— Daya Kudari
The starting place for your greatness is desire. The desire to succeed, to serve others, to keep on going no matter what; the desire to...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Experiencing life with your whole heart will not only bring more of what you desire but often it will surpass what you could have imagined!
— Heidi Reagan
You fill a hungry place shaped like your darkness.
— stephanie   roberts
I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.
— Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky
There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don’t coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?
— Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill
You, yesterday’s boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy.You were called to be bridegroom,though the bride coming toward you is your shame.What chose you is the great desire.Now all flesh bares itself to you.On pious images pale cheeksblush with a strange fire.Your senses uncoil like snakesawakened by the beat of the tambourine.Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you.But now, like a whispering in dark streets,rumors of God run through your dark blood.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Because Honestlyis it trashyto want something so badyou go for iteven if it might kill you?My opinion?It's judging that's trashy.Bad enough the world looks at usunder a (distorted) microscope.Like the good Lord says,we don't need tojudge each other.
— Kristin Elizabeth Clark, Freakboy
Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.
— Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.
— Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
— George Sheehan
She and I will become one someday soon. So much so, that none will know where I begin and she ends. This I know…
— A.R. Von, Gods & Goddesses
The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
When I was 6 I wanted to be a nurse. When I was 14 I wanted to be a spy or a lion tamer. When I was 16 I wanted too be a highwire walker or an acrobat. Or maybe a clown with a white face. Then I gave up wanting to be anything other than what I am and what I am is a woman with a woman's needs and a woman's desires.
— Chloe Thurlow, Girl Trade
Let a sweltering heat... love... rose up relentlessly.
— Sooyeon Won, Let Dai, Volume 10
You have everything you need inside of you to create anything in your life that you desire.
— Mike Basevic, No Limits, Mastering the Mental Edge
God's greatest desire is for you to come to Him.
— Jim George
Desire lies dormant in our hearts
—  slowly it keeps getting stronger and ignites the will to succeed.
4.45 CREATIONMan’s creation – with use clearly decreases,It but fulfillment of want and desire please;God’s Creation – but with use increases,It the fulfillment of love, truly never ceases.[271]	- 4
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
4.04 APOLOGYA second insult be just a stiff apology,As the first be when hurt was the party;Damages for aggrieved no medicine be,But healing from hurt - the desire only.[38]	- 4
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
Desire, Desire, Desire!!!Desire to love.Desire to seek.Desire to ask.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Thou shalt not search with desire; because the real treasures, they, will remain forever hidden from you.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.
— Sherri L. King, The Jewel
...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.
— Martha N. Beck
It had been so long since she had felt the touch of a man. Too long. She had almost forgotten that ripe, heavy throb of attraction and desire that could instantly drug her body and mind more thoroughly than any hard liquor.
— Sherri L. King, The Jewel
If you’re supposed to work with someone, I’d recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was “tense.
— Katherine McIntyre, By the Sea
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.
— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.
— Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior
I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.
— Tim Fargo
I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia
— Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind of man who would forsake his own desires in order to seek or preserve the acceptance of lesser men.~ Dave Champion
— Dave Champion