Quotes about desire
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“To know and have it all is about individuality because each one has the right not to live under the mercy of anyone with more power. So, for freedom and protection, one desires to know and have it all, but the questions remain.”

Zaman Ali (1993) Pakistani philosopher

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11104151-to-know-and-have-it-all-is-about-individuality-because

Question, Freedom

“The way things used to be
not so long ago
when we were young and free.
The way things used to be
not so long ago
you were loving me
every night and every day, strong in every way
passion glowing like a fire, burning with desire.
Whatever happened?”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"The Way Things Used To Be" (song) <br class="br">Gilbert O'Sullivan, "The Way Things Used To Be" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_p37g6xRU (song on YouTube) <br class="br">Song lyrics

Love, Way, Strong, Passion

“We desire to see the return of a liberal age where Parliaments will guard freedom, where science will open the banqueting halls to the millions, and where what Bismarck once called "practical Christianity" will mitigate suffering and misfortunes.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Source: 'No Intervention In Spain' (8 January 1937), quoted in Winston Churchill, Step by Step, 1936–1939 (1939; 1947), p. 84

Age, Freedom, Suffering, Science

“Charity is only authentic when it is disinterested and is freely given, when it is not done with the desire to obtain other goals, when it is not at the service of worldly tactics or used as proselytism, to gain political or religious supporters.”

Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz (1951) Mexican Roman Catholic bishop

Source: Inauguration of a joint project between the government and the Catholic Church, in favor of care and rehabilitation of drug addicts http://fides.org/en/news/18487-america_mexico_Inauguration_of_a_joint_project_between_the_government_and_the_Catholic_Church_in_favor_of_care_and_rehabilitation_of_drug_addicts (27 October 2008)

Support

“I don’t really have a lot of desires, or that’s what I think of myself. But if I were to pick one, I would want for people to live peacefully. I don’t understand why some people harass or hurt others, or why they do these things because they envy others — we fight and wound each other and it might be a natural phenomenon that arises among weak humans, but I still hurt thinking about social issues such as Asian hate.”

Gong Yoo (1979) South Korean actor

Source: "Gong Yoo talks life, death and 20 years in the business" in Korea JoongAng Daily https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/04/19/entertainment/movies/Gong-Yoo-actor-interview/20210419145803689.html (19 April 2021)

Hate, People, Understanding, Nature

“The clouds, never expect it,
When it rains
But the sea changes color,
But the sea does not change,
, And so with the slow graceful
Flow of age, I went forth with an,
Age old desire to please,
On the edge of seventeen.”

Stevie Nicks (1948) American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac

Edge of Seventeen
Bella Donna (album) (1981)

Age, Color, Change, Sea

“Let your desires be governed by reason.”
Appetitus rationi pareat.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are to become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No … don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn’t sound very exciting, does it? But it is!”

Louis De Bernières (1954) English novelist

Source: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Love, Truth, Imagination, Lying

“Is pain a promise? I was schooled in pain,
And found out what I could of all desire;
I weep for what I'm like when I'm alone
In the deep center of the voice and fire.I know the motion of the deepest stone.
Each one's himself, yet each one's everyone.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

"The Sententious Man," ll. 31-36
Words for the Wind (1958)

Pain, School

“Some might ask, how in the world could the Secretary of Defense attack the Pentagon in front of its people? To them I reply, Today, I have no desire to attack the Pentagon; I want to liberate it. We need to save it from itself.”

Donald Rumsfeld (1932) U.S. Secretary of Defense

2000s, Bureaucracy to Battlefield: 9/11 Speech, (September 11, 2001)

People, World

“One percent intention, ninety nine percent desire.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

“Only the dead find peace, only the living desire it.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Peace, Dead

“The heart’s desire is expressed in blood.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Heart

“The kingdom of consciousness is under siege by the desires of our mind.”

Om Swami (1979) Indian mystic

A Million Thoughts (2016)

“In some grocery stores there is an expressive sign that says: Today I don't trust, tomorrow I do. I have some desire to compare that sign the promises of happiness that life gives us.”

Daniel Salamanca (1863–1935) President of Bolivia (1863-1935)

Life, Happiness

“Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.”

Charles Sheffield book Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 16 (p. 217)

Wealth

“That’s what this is all about: responding to basic human desires that we share for dignity, for safety, and for security. And when those basics are absent in one place, that’s when people make the desperate decision to seek them elsewhere.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, June 2022, Remarks by President Biden at the Inaugural Ceremony of the Ninth Summit of the Americas

People, Decision

“Visit not miracle-mongers and those who exhibit occult powers. These men are stragglers from the path of Truth. Their minds have become entangled in psychic powers, which are like veritable meshes in the way of the pilgrim to Brahman. Beware of these powers, and desire them not.”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

372
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960)

Men, Truth, Way

“If, then, in the sphere of action there is some one end which we desire for its own sake, and for the sake of which we desire every thing else; and if we do not choose every thing for the sake of something else, for this would go on without limit, and our desire would be idle and futile, it is clear that this must be the supreme good, and the best thing of all.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Bk I, Ch I
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

“We must make people aware of the misfortunes they suffer and of their chances to destroy them. We must awaken sympathy in everybody for the misfortunes of others and a warm desire for the good of all people.”

Errico Malatesta (1853–1932) Italian anarchist

Source: An Anarchist Programme (1920)

People, Suffering, Chance

“It is therefore necessary to state what are the means which in our opinion lead to our desired ends, and which we propose to adopt.”

Errico Malatesta (1853–1932) Italian anarchist

An Anarchist Programme (1920)

“The desire to be loved exactly as we are can get in the way of self-development, personal expansion and prevent us from making necessary changes that would make our relationships and life better.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

Love, Life, Way, Change

“Nothing can exist without ceasing to exist as the present exists only once in a lifetime.
The essence of life is the eternity of change experienced, perceived and affected by and from the consciousness of matter transpiring from the energy of life’s creations directed towards its true love(desires)”

Boukabyegga

Love, Life, Change

“The seeking of wealth for a valid reasons is exhorted and is full of significance. Lawful wealth too plays its part in the acquisition of peace of mind, which is an end desired by the religion.”

Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863–1943) Indian Muslim scholar

Ashraf Ali Thānwī, Hayātul Muslimeen , p.44

Peace, Religion, Law, Parting

“The desire to be perfect. Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona—to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.”

Mila Kunis (1983) American actress

"Mila Kunis on Life With Ashton and Making Babies: “There’s Nothing We Don’t Know About Each Other"" in Glamour https://www.glamour.com/story/mila-kunis-on-life-with-ashton-and-making-babies (6 July 2016)

Women, Way, Perfection

“In the subconscious you fuck ugly people, never beautiful, because the libido always desires something repulsive.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1971 - 1980, Dali interviewed by Victor Bockris, 1974

People, Beauty

“I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”

John Donne Songs and Sonnets

Songs and Sonnets (1633), The Good-Morrow

Love, Pleasure, World, Fear

“The burden of desire makes man a slave of his own will.”

Titon Rahmawan

#Desire

“If desires fly by like shadows,
If vows are empty words,
Is it worth it to live in this fog of delusion?
Is it worth it to live if the truth is dead?
is it worth when life’s summer grows to winter?
Then it is to know what love is,
waiting on a foreign shore.”

Alexis Karpouzos book BEYOND THE HEAVEN

Love, Life, Truth, Winter

“The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848

“Eugenics is not just a tool of totalitarianism. Eugenics, as it was conceived, could not be anything but totalitarian as it desired to control all aspects of society. Hitler’s “National Socialist” (Nationalsozialist) form of government was amongst the first to put the full force of its government to conduct compulsory health initiatives. It is by no coincidence that the Dachau concentration camp used its slave-labor to run the largest organic produce farm of the era.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: H.H. LAUGHLIN: American Scientist. American Progressive. Nazi Collaborator.

Health

“A person's spiritual development begins with his conscious desire for knowledge of important worldview issues, goodness, and humanity, and understanding and perception of beauty.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Beauty, Understanding, Knowledge, Personality

“Much of the process of socialization that took place in the past and that takes place today, is a process of using the control tactic of shaming so as to create the desired behavior that we want.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Behavior, Past

“Perhaps, humans are the race most ruled by the desire for conquest, power ambition, the demand for personal ego gratification, hypocrisy, greed and the thirst for respect. But on the other hand, all of these traits are what have kept human beings alive until now.”

Titon Rahmawan

Personality

“Pornography is definitely not a reflection of real life. Accepted or rejected, it will always be at odds. However, sexual expression in pornography is a celebration of the denial of women's dignity. For a man, it is an affirmation of the myth of masculinity to dominate, to rule and to show his might. Conversely, for a woman, sex must be accepted as a form of willingness to be submissive, to submit to the destruction of her own dignity. In pornography there is no love, no passion or drama. There is only manipulation of the body, the mind and the lowly human desire to be satisfied. That humans cannot be separated from animalistic lust.”

Titon Rahmawan

Love, Life, Women, Sex

“When you follow your emotional guidance system with the awareness that your inner compass can be ‘faulty’ you will be able to question yourself in the spirit of curiosity and the desire to be totally aware… You will ask yourself WHY something feels good to do.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Feeling, Question

“Your desires do not control you any more than a compass can control you. But ignoring, denying or trying to change a compass to say what you would rather it say, tends to have drastic consequences.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Change

“What is this nonsense? We're not here at the moment. At least, we don't expect to be. Trying to get out of what people think of themselves. All this futility. The earth we walk on is slowly burning.

Is that the kind of statement you want to write? You shout? Will it end up in vain? The rebellion of desire. There is no sanctity or half-truth.

All that nonsense is fake. The hatred that people cultivate from their own disbelief. A conflict of the soul, an inner struggle, or whatever you want to call it. Where will they go? After years and centuries of waiting. Will we find our way or will we forever be lost?

For too long we have slept in the illusion of this madness. This rage. Things we don't believe to be true. Everyone looking for their own truth. Ignorant and indifferent to each other.

Do we feel lucky with our ignorance? With all our naivety? Accepting everything without being able to fight back? Have we been blinded by pseudo-reality, which does not touch our very essence?

What kind of truth are we still debating? What authenticity are we still looking for? Those of you who feel poor, who are still confined by suffering. Arise, live, lift your own burdens! If you have not been able to lighten the burden of others.”

Titon Rahmawan

People, Truth, Way, Feeling

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“Learn what is the soul's desire, and go with that. Go with the soul. What the soul is after is - the highest feeling of love you can imagine. This is the soul's desire. This is its purpose.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Love, Feeling, Soul, Imagination