Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“Here may we prove the pow’r of pray’r,
To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heav’n before our eyes.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“Heaven is not as high as the desires of the human heart.”
—Chinese proverb.