Desires

Famous quotes containing the word desires:

“Too many desires harm the mind; to desire much money harms the body.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)