62 Quotes On Desire

In the ever-evolving tapestry of human emotions, desire stands as one of the most compelling threads, weaving dreams, ambitions, and passions into our everyday lives. It is the driving force that propels us toward our goals, ignites our creativity, and fuels our personal growth. From ancient philosophies to modern musings, desire has been a subject of fascination and introspection for thinkers throughout history. In this collection, we explore 62 profound quotes on desire, offering timeless insights and inspiration. These quotes encapsulate the essence of longing and aspiration, providing a window into the diverse perspectives on what it means to yearn and strive. Whether you seek motivation, reflection, or simply a spark of inspiration, these words will resonate with the desires of your heart and mind.

1. “He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth.” - T.H. White

2. “Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.” - Voltaire

3. “I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.I want.” - Sara Gruen

4. “I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?” - Neil Gaiman

5. “Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.” - Ann Brashares

6. “As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get 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 have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.” - Jeannette Walls

7. “Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?” - Chuck Palahniuk

8. “In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.” - George Eliot

9. “I’ve wanted you from the moment we met, and if you think sitting next to me in your bra doesn’t overwhelm me with desire, you’re very wrong. I just don’t force myself where I’m not invited. (Bones)” - Jeaniene Frost

10. “If I have you for a day, I'll want you for a week. If I have you for a week, I'll want you for another week.” - Michael Stein

11. “Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.” - Jay Mcinerney

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

13. “Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them.” - Toba Beta

14. “We want more than there is.” - Jonathan Goldstein

15. “A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.” - Harold Ramis

16. “To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.” - Jonathan Price

17. “Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.” - Henry David Thoreau

18. “The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.” - Lisa Kleypas

19. “I love you. I want to do everything with you. I want to marry you and have kids with you and get old with you. And then I want to die the day before you do, so I never have to live without you.” - Stacey Jay

20. “Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed” - Dee Remy

21. “Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.” - Carson McCullers

22. “You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.” - Lisa Kleypas

23. “You asked about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't want to anywhere but with you.” - Brenna Yovanoff

24. “And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.” - H. Rider Haggard

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

26. “But I don't want more things than I need, either.” - Isabel Allende

27. “I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.” - Margaret Atwood

28. “This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.” - Ann Brashares

29. “There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.” - Donna Woolfolk Cross

30. “Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.” - Meghan O'Rourke

31. “They’re like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can’t have just one.” - Steve Berry

32. “I want, I don’t want.How can one live with such a heart?” - Margaret Atwood

33. “People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.” - Patrick Suskind

34. “What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.” - Esther Jno-Charles

35. “I will never know you well enough. I will always want more.” - Priya Ardis

36. “Create your own miracles, don't just wait for miracles to happen. Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want.” - Steven Redhead

37. “Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want to create your bliss.” - Steven Redhead

38. “In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.” - Judy Garland

39. “You’re everything I’ve ever wanted, Pigeon.”“Just remember that when I take all of your money in the next poker game,” I said, pulling off my shirt.” - Jamie McGuire

40. “Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.” - Rachel Ward

41. “Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.” - Cora Carmack

42. “I know what it is to want something that could destroy you.” - Nenia Campbell

43. “It isnt for wantof something to say--something to tell you--something you should know--but to detain you--keep you from going--feeling myself hereas long as you are--as long as you are” - Cid Corman

44. “You might be able to kiss like a rock star, but you’ve got to get over this macho trip. You don’t own me.” - Missy Lyons

45. “I feel alive when you kiss me.” - Missy Lyons

46. “Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.” - Suzanne Collins

47. “Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. 'We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like'. Where planned obsolescence leaves off, psychological obsolescence takes over. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media have convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality. It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick. Until we see how unbalanced our culture has become at this point, we will not be able to deal with the mammon spirit within ourselves nor will we desire Christian simplicity.” - Richard J. Foster

48. “I don't want to be dying. I want to be dead.” - Lisa Cander

49. “Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.” - Stacey T. Hunt

50. “I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.” - John Green

51. “I want you to stay. I need you to go.” - Kimberly Sabatini

52. “If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is that free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of hour behavior are so complex that we can't trace them back. If you've got one line of dominoes knocking each other down, one by one, then you can always say, look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of dominoes that can be traced back in an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the causal chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to... Even if there is no such thing as free will, we have to treat each other as if there were free will in order to live together in society.” - Orson Scott Card

53. “Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?” - Lorraine Heath

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

55. “Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.” - E. Lockhart

56. “She nodded against me. “Do you need me to do anything?” I didn’t need a thing from her, but I wanted everything. I wanted her to leave Tyler, to love me, to want to live here with me for the rest of our lives. I wanted so damn much. ”Just go back to sleep, then enjoy the rest of the day with the girls. I’ll be back tonight.” ”I’ll be waiting her for you.” Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath in and held it. if only she knew what she did to me.” - Molly McAdams

57. “I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.” - Neal Shusterman

58. “If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo

59. “A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

60. “Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.” - Brandon Sanderson

61. “Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.” - Carol Ann Duffy

62. “Everyone has something they can't live without.” - Cassandra Clare