Desire - Love Quotes

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Russell, Bertrand

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Johnson, Samuel

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Rochefoucauld, Francois de La

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.