Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“...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)
“Your heart’s desires be with you!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)