33 Quotes About Desires

In a world driven by aspirations and dreams, desires play a pivotal role in shaping our journeys. They fuel our passions, inspire our ambitions, and challenge us to push beyond our limits. Whether you seek motivation to pursue a goal, solace in understanding your yearnings, or simply a moment of reflection, delving into thoughts on desire can be profoundly enlightening. Here, we've curated a collection of the top 33 quotes about desires, offering insights that span centuries and cultures, reminding us of the universal nature of longing and ambition. Let these words kindle the fire within you as you navigate your own path driven by desire.

1. “He just wanted to stand close to her, touch her hair that was white as glacier milk...” - Janet Fitch

2. “Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want.” - Santosh Kalwar

3. “Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.” - Toba Beta

4. “It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -” - Derek Landy

5. “Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.” - Isobelle Carmody

6. “It's always times like these when I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me.” - Vanessa Carlton

7. “There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

8. “And i can't get you out of my head,how in the world will i beginto let you walk right out my lifeand blow my heart away?” - Toni Braxton

9. “If I lay hereIf I just lay herewould you lie with me and just forget the world?” - Snow Patrol

10. “The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desire: to 'do something creative' or to earn more money or 'to be free', but they can't really pin down what it is precisely that they want. So they drift from one thing to another, enjoying some moments and hating others, but never really finding fulfillment or success. (..)This is why it's hard to lead a successful life (whatever that means to you) when you don't know what you want.” - John C. Parkin

11. “Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us.” - Janet Fitch

12. “I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.” - Jamie Ford

13. “Maybe it was because I didn't want to look at my life and see what is missing. Once you identify what you lack, then it's all you see anymore. Wanting something I couldn't have would only lead to unhappiness, so I tried to be content with what I had.” - Lisa Mangum

14. “It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them.” - Maggie Stiefvater

15. “Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.” - Heather O'Neill

16. “As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.” - Andy Warhol

17. “In the end, everything is found to be wanting.” - Frank Lentricchia

18. “Always wanting another man than your own.” - Thomas Hardy

19. “Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody.There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.” - Augusten Burroughs

20. “According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.” - Chuck Palahniuk

21. “I didn't think he was in love with me and I had no idea what I felt for him, but he wanted me, and maybe that was enough.” - Leigh Bardugo

22. “Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.” - Steve Maraboli

23. “The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.” - Maggie Stiefvater

24. “No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

25. “I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don’t need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things—though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart—and at the ranch, I could see, we’d have pretty much everything we’d need but precious little else.” - Jeannette Walls

26. “All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted by you.  That would have changed everything.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

27. “Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."- from "Dimpellumpzki” - Richelle E. Goodrich

28. “Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.” - Richelle Mead

29. “Hell, a man can lie there and want something so bad and be so full of wanting it he just plain forgets what it is he wants. Just like when you are a boy and the sap first rises and you think you will go crazy some night wanting something and you want it so bad and get so near sick wanting it you near forget what it is.” - Robert Penn Warren

30. “He isn't interested in simple. He wants what he wants. No matter how much trouble she is and no matter whether he even understands it himself.” - Deanna Raybourn

31. “I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.” - Stanley Kubrick

32. “How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice?” - Lorii Myers

33. “You asked what I wanted and I'm not going to lie to you. What I want most is the naked truth. I want to strip away every stubborn layer until you're bared to me. And then I'm going to show you how to love right.” - Nadège Richards