Famous quotes containing the word desires:
““Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.”
Why, that’s the lady, all the world desires her.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Too many desires harm the mind; to desire much money harms the body.”
—Chinese proverb.
“We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim—objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)