Quotes and Sayings about Desire

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Quotes and Sayings about Desire

Longing - a tender ache that embraces our soul. It ignites in us the desire for the unattainable, which still seems so close. It's the echo of past moments and the yearning for future dreams. Longing drives us to pursue our dreams and show our love. It's like a bittersweet dance between heart and mind, teaching us what truly matters. May longing guide us forward and remind us that we are alive and our wishes are meaningful.

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

Garden State

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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.

Steve Urkel in Family Matters - Season 2 Episode 3

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Breakup Love declerations

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

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Missing Someone

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.

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 3 Episode 21

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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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Wisdom of the Sands

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

Paulo Coelho in Eleven Minutes

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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.

Vada in My Girl

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Death Grief & Condolence

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Heart Mind & Apprehension

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and Damned

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

Federico García Lorca in Blood Wedding and Yerma

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

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Humanity Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Tessa Dare in A Lady of Persuasion

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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.

John Green in Looking for Alaska

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

Lovex - Guardian Angel, Album: Guardian Angel (EP)

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Nicola Yoon in Everything, Everything -

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

Lev Grossman in The Magicians

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

William Blake

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Alfred Tennyson

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

Gloria Estefan

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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.

Alchemy of Souls - Season 1

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

Jackie Chan

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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Love Hurting Sad Quotes

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And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.

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Grief & Condolence Missing Someone Loss

It's funny because everything makes me think of you. I read a poem, and I wonder what you'd say about it.
I see people, and I wonder you'd know about them.
Everywhere I go, I run into something, that reminds me of you all over again.

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Breakup Missing Someone

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know your lover when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know your lover when you've let her go

Passenger - Let Her Go

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Breakup Missing Someone Satisfaction

Love's involved with spending time together, but spending time apart, can lead to loving even more.

Tyler in Remember Me

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Relationships Missing Someone Long-Distance Relationships

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

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Only love and death change all things.

Kahlil Gibran

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A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

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Heart Heros Size

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

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Ambition Egoism

Sam: "We need each other. I haven't even lied in like, the past two days."
Andrew Largeman: "Is that true?"
Sam: "No."

Sam in Garden State

But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Danger's my middle name. Well, actually it's Quincy, but you guys get the picture.

Steve Urkel in Family Matters

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Time to count our Christmas cards. One... now, let's read it!

Steve Urkel in Family Matters

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I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.

Arwen in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - to Aragorn

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Love declerations

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Falling in love

It may seem as the hardest thing in the world, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.

The Notebook

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The body is a slave to its impulses.

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy

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Doesn't matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives, Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point: All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all of that is what keeps us moving forward, it's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we can step up.

Alex Karev in Grey's Anatomy - Season 5

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Beginning Scars

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

The human world... it's a mess.

Sebastian in The Little Mermaid

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Tyrion: "If the ship goes down, I'll go with it."
Varys: "That is good to hear. Though I'm sure many captains say the same while their ship is afloat."

Lord Varys in Game of Thrones - Season 2 Episode 9

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