Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.
I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a desire to eat cake, a desire to feel the touch of another's skin moving over your own skin, a desire to breathe, a desire to live, a desire to laugh int...
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.
Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his h...
Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something much more meaningful, much more valuable. A life lived and relived, then, emitting intensity and beauty only achievable...
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure inten...
When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Because we have loved profoundly, Because we have given much, Because we have hoped passionately, Because we have desired intensely, We allow ourselves to be infinitely hurt.
