Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“Too many desires harm the mind; to desire much money harms the body.”
—Chinese proverb.
““Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.”
Why, that’s the lady, all the world desires her.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)