Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim—objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“Too many desires harm the mind; to desire much money harms the body.”
—Chinese proverb.