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Desire Quotes

"Good means not merely not to do wrong but rather not to desire to do wrong."
Democritus
"I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it."
Haruki Murakami
"We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired"
Lana Del Rey
"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad"
T. S. Eliot
"Between the desire and the spasm"
T. S. Eliot
"In the end, people will justify everything they want"
Haruki Murakami
"It is not the man with too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
Benjamin Franklin
"The things one loves are an entire universe in themselves"
Jorge Luis Borges
"Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust"
Zig Ziglar
"The amount of erotic desire we feel has less to do with models of attractiveness and more to do with how willing we are to take risks."
Esther Perel
"Eroticism requires separateness; it is a space where you can be yourself without losing yourself."
Esther Perel
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive."
George Eliot
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve not by the desire to beat others"
Ayn Rand
"Forbid us something and that thing we desire"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"He who is greedy is always in want"
Horace
"For the greedy, there is no life, for they never are satisfied, only stuck in the perpetual pursuit of more wealth"
Erich Fromm
"To love a thing means wanting it to live."
Confucius
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