desire Quotes

“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?”

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“It is hard to fight against impulsive desire. Whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of the soul.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

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“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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“For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquillity of mind, while we live here; because Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:heart desire

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