The best Quotes and Sayings about Desire

It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

I know I'm not worthy of you. But I just can't help loving you. It's like wanting to touch a star - you know you'll never reach it, but you just gotta keep trying.

Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.

Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have. Desire leaves us heartbroken, it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. And as tough as wanting something can be, the people who suffer the most are those who don't know what they want.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Weeping willow with your tears running down, why do you always weep and frown? Is it because he left you one day? is it because he could not stay? On your branches he would swing, do you long for the happiness that day would bring? He found shelter in your shade. You thought his laughter would never fade. Weeping willow, stop your tears. There is something to calm you fears. You think death has ripped you forever apart. But I know he'll always be in your heart.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f-ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

Through the darkness and broken glass
I'll come for you, if you only ask
And there i'll stand
Just for you

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Wanting just leads to more wanting. There's no end to desire.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

That is exactly why things that taste sweet are dangerous. Once you have a taste of it, you desire it at all costs. You fail to distinguish what you can have and what you cannot.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?