Desire Quotes

“Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“They say I should stay away from you,” I said. “They said you’re not good for me.”
“I’m not,” he said with a wicked smile, “But doesn’t that make it even more fun?”
― Kassandra Cross, Black Magic

“This is the gateway to Hell, baby… Welcome to The Underworld.”
― Kassandra Cross, Black Magic

“What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight toward a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?…If your deepest self is singing and coaxing you straight toward the bonfire, is it better to turn away? Stop your ears with wax? Ignore all the perverse glory your heart is screaming at you? Set yourself on the course that will lead you dutifully towards the norm, reasonable hours and regular medical check-ups, stable relationships and steady career advancement the New York Times and brunch on Sunday, all with the promise of being somehow a better person? Or…is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Oh, it was an artful place--it must make people who have money want to spend it madly!”
― Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle

“Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.”
― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

“If you can’t be happy and content by yourself then you shouldn’t be in a relationship.”
― Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

“The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.”
― Indiana Lang

“If everyone could spend some time self analysing, spend some quiet time with nothing to do and nowhere to go, then without a doubt the world would be an infinitely better place to live and play. It would probably be the cause of the end of bullying, teen suicide, anxiety, depression, stress, and fear and the start of a more genuine and authentic world. I have found that my tranquillity and peacefulness grew significantly stronger as I began to live comfortably with my desires and cravings.”
― Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

“But this time, so far as I can tell, my mother has not made her husband her desire incarnate, though she does love him very much. And for his part, so far as I can tell, he doesn’t try to talk her out of her self-deprecation, nor does he abet it. He simply loves her. I am learning from him.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends.
It is also true that you can choose your partner and in doing so, you end up choosing the family you've always wanted.”
― J.R. Rim

“This is where the whole thing entered into a vicious cycle, for her proximity always inebriated the hearts, thus only deepening their desire to remain hostages in the cages so that they could booze even more on that beauty.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“Wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“How many relationships would be better if they were born out of something genuine rather than merely a petty desire? Divorce would drop because people would know why they started doing something in the first place. Teen pregnancy would almost be eradicated because for the first time we wouldn’t need to simply succumb to our desires and cravings pushed onto us from the media and society in general. Prostitutes would be searching for redundancy packages and brothel owners for new careers, and the whole shallow and superficial nature of sex would be under the spotlight.”
― Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

“Yes, I'm sure [the princess] thinks daily of a delinquent midget apprentice growing up to claim her hand ahead of all the nobles and princes of the realm. What could any of them possibly give that you don't have, except titles, land, wealth and all that.”
― Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder

“But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“We grow up in a world where satisfying our cravings seems to be the number one objective, every advertisement on television and the newspaper calls for one craving or another to be dealt with. When it comes to sex we are bombarded every which way, so much so, that we think solving our cravings is the only way and the right way.”
― Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

“Now, if you open the treasure chest of desire, what do you find there? What do all the desires have in common? You. Go ahead and stop here and test it for a few days if you are really serious about the question. After you get past the first thousand, you begin to enter into a subtle territory, known as the border between desire and yearning. Or, if you want, between answers and questions. The defining quality, or essence, of desire is that it is engaged as if it were an answer.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

“Cultivate confidence, and eradicate the need to control.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Passionate life is the beauty of a sacred-existence.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“And our desire to know
Each other and desert
Each other for new
Centers of meaning so that
The boundaries may reign
And in doing so be undone.”
― Rob Schlegel

“It’s whatever the majority deems it to be. It’s not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it’s the one that has become adapted to the desires of society as a whole.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“With God the vision is possible to realize.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

“My biggest question was how to get rid of desire while going after your dreams?

Dreams are desire in some way, shape or form. My answer is go after your dreams but don't get lost in your actions by staying present as often as possible.”
― Matthew Donnelly

“To be myself, to follow my desires to the best of my abilities. That’s the only end worth shooting for. Success and failure lie beyond us, they may be signposts that direct us, but they are foolish goals in themselves. To truly be who I have been made to be, made myself to be, ah, that is the only mission worthy of all the life that flows within.”
― James Rozoff, Seven Stones

“How can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ...”
― Chris Damian

“I was a puppet on the strings to my cravings and desires.”
― Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

“I think if our new direction in all our relationships is friendship, compassion, and enjoyment, we will easily be able to break our old cycle of bad habits and develop something deeper and more meaningful”
― Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World