desire Quotes

“Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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“never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

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“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt that he had a right to.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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