Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“Too many desires harm the mind; to desire much money harms the body.”
—Chinese proverb.