Quotes about Desire
You mayn`t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I`m her knight in shinning armor.
Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones
An emptiness began to grow,
There’s something out there far from my home,
A longing that I’ve never known.
The Nightmare Before Christmas (movie)
There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
Sometimes people have a strong inside feeling that somebody loves them when it is not based upon any evidence, and then they are likely to be completely wrong.
Desire - and all concede it -
kills all who are not dead.
But happiness, you need it
as you need daily bread.
Mighty love`s consuming fire
Has most deeply scorched my soul,
Cooling balm for hot desire,
Gracious tulip, make me whole.
[People] seek within the short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires; each of which alone is insatiable.
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy`s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.