Desire

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

—Laozi

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.

—Laozi

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

—Margaret Deland

One must desire something to be alive.

—Mark Twain

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

—Nicole Kidman

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

—Publilius Syrus

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

—Raymond Holliwell

Desire creates the power.

—Rebecca West

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

—Stanley Kunitz

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

—William Blake

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

—William Shakespeare

Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.

—Unknown

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

—Clive Barnes