Desire Love Quotes:

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

- Thomas Hardy

source: Thomas Hardy (2015). “The Return of the Native”, p.68, Xist Publishing

topic: Loneliness, Desire Love, Long, Passionate Love

One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him.

- Ramakrishna

source: Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

topic: Anger, Passion, Desire Love

Love isn't quite desire... Love is probably a little bit in The Sandman's domain. Love is partly a dream, it's partly to do with desire, and sometimes it's partly to do with death, as well. It's also very often something to do with delirium.

- Neil Gaiman

source: Source: www.naylor.net

topic: Dream, Love Is, Desire Love, Sandman

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Believe, Desire Love, Wish

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Success, Smart, Journey To Success, Starting All Over

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Desire Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Humorous Love, St Valentine

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Love, Inspirational, Uplifting, Inspiration Love, Love Poems

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Thank You, Yoga, Heart, Loving Others, Kung Fu

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Love, Life, Best Friend, Spring Love, Time Love

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

- W. Clement Stone

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Starting All Over, Starting All Over Again

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, If You Love Someone, Marriage Advice

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Soulmate, Attachment, Two, Desire Love

Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb. Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom. Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire. Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire. So man and woman will keep their trust, Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust. Yea, each with the other will lose and win, Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in. For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife, And the word of Love is the Word of Life. And they that go with the Word unsaid, Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.

- William Ernest Henley

source: William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1970). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

topic: Life, Running, Spring, Desire Love, Tombs

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

- William Landay

source: William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.209, Delacorte Press

topic: Hate, Ideas, Mind, Desire Love, Repulsion

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

- David Levithan

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love Is, Desire, Individual, Desire Love

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Thee, After Death, Love Poems, Love Vows, Wedding Blessings

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Life, Stars, Desire Love, Divine Comedy

According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

- Plato

topic: Beautiful, Wise, Love Is, Desire Love

Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.

- Libba Bray

topic: Desire, Firsts, Looks, Hope And Love, Desire Love

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Art, Grief, Love Life, Desire Love

Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.

- Jim Clifton

source: "The Coming Jobs War". Book by Jim Clifton, 2013.

topic: Peace, Jobs, Children, Desire Love, Waging War

I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.

- Garth Greenwell

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Sex, Thinking, Light, Desire Love