Quotes about Desire
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
— Graham Greene
Love God, and do what you like.
— St. Augustine
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do.
— Max Lucado
Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.
— DL Moody
Being in love doesn't mean loving.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?
— Samuel Beckett
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
— Mortimer Adler
Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.
— Napoleon Hill
Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love
— Paulo Coelho
A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
— Peter Kreeft