Desire Quotes

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.

Barcelona gave me everything, they took a chance on me when nobody else would. I never have any desire to play for anybody else, I will be here for as long as they want me.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.

It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.