Quotes about Desire
Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'
— Amy Carmichael
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
— Philip Yancey
I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
— John Bunyan
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
— Khalil Gibran
Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
— Lauren Kate
Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.
— CS Lewis
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
— St. Augustine
People become like what they love.
— Catherine of Siena
All love craves unity.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
— St. Augustine
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
— Oscar Wilde
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
— Euripides