DESIRE

Related Subjects: Ambition, Appetite, Attraction, Avarice, Choice, Envy, Fancy, Hope, Hunger, Love, Lust, Passion, Thirst, Will, Wish

1. As the hart panteth after the water-brooks.—Bible, Psalms 42:1
   

2. Bring me my bow of burning gold!
   Bring me my arrows of desire!—BLAKE, Milton
   

3. He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.—BLAKE, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
   

4. Desire bath no rest.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

5. Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.—CICERO, De Senectute
   

6. Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.—HENRY GEORGE, Progress & Poverty
   

7. The bloom of young desire, and purple light of love.—THOMAS GRAY, The Progress of Poesy
   

8. Desire suffereth no delay.—GABRIEL HARVEY, Marginalia
   

9. Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.—HORACE, Carmina
   

10. We live in our desires rather than in our achievements.—GEORGE MOORE, Ave
    

11. Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.—PERSIUS, Satires

12. Shameless craving must have shameful nay.—Proverb
    

13. If your desires be endless, your cares will be so too.—Proverb
    

14. He that desires but little has no need of much.—Proverb
    

15. We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

16. I have
    Immortal longings in me.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
    

17. Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

18. The huge army of the world's desires.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

19. At Christmas I no more desire a rose
    Than wish a snow in May's new­fangled mirth.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

20. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    

21. Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

22. The trustless wings of false desire.—SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece
    

23. The sea bath bounds, but deep desire bath none.—SHAKESPEARE, Venus and Adonis
    

24. The desire of love, Joy;
    The desire of life, Peace:
    The desire of the soul, Heaven:
    The desire of God—a flame-white secret forever.—WILLIAM SHARP, Desire
    

25. There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.—BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman
    

26. The desire of the moth for the star,
    Of the night for the morrow,
    The devotion to something afar
    From the sphere of our sorrow.—SHELLEY, One Word is too Often Profaned