Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“While Man’s desires and aspirations stir,
He cannot choose but err.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Too many desires harm the mind; to desire much money harms the body.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)