Desire Quotes

In the endless variety of tastes and circumstances that diversify mankind, nothing is so superfluous, but that some one desires it: or so common, but that someone is compelled to buy it. As nothing is useless but because it is in improper hands, what is thrown away by one is gathered up my another; and […]

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

Desire is the very essence of man.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that’s to get rid of all my other desires.

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Where desire doth bear the sway – the heart must rule, the head obey.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

It is easier to suppress the first desire; than to satisfy all that follow it.

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.