Quotes about Desire
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
— Heinrich Heine
Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.
— John Milton
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
— Victor Hugo
God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.
— Scott Hahn
People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him.
— Pope John Paul II
Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.
— Mark Twain
God's will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.
— Myles Munroe
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
— Anais Nin
No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.
— Paulo Coelho
But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars
— Dante Alighieri
When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
— Ernest Hemingway