Quotes about Desire
fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.
— Viktor E. Frankl
paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
— Viktor E. Frankl
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
— Virginia Woolf
I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.
— Virginia Woolf
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.
— Virginia Woolf
You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.
— Virginia Woolf
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
— Virginia Woolf
Sometimes, one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful and we maggots deforming even the trees with our lusts.
— Virginia Woolf
Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For, he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, I have done with men.
— Virginia Woolf
There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.
— Virginia Woolf
these errand-boys and furtive and fugitive girls who, ignoring their doom, look in at shop windows? But I am aware of our ephemeral passage.
— Virginia Woolf