Quotes about Desire

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.

There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a-going—none of 'em—ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon.

Barkis suspira.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

Christianity to me is like a hopeless love affair. It is infinitely dear and infinitely unattainable.

The tragedy is, when you've got sex in your head, instead of down where it belongs, and when you have to go on copulating with your ears and your nose.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.