desire Quotes

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”

― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

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“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's...”

― Plato, Symposium

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“Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“However, some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification; or he has some desire distinct from sense, which must be satisfied before he can be happy.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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“by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired”

― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

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“One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“When there is no desire, all things are at peace.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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