Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)
“Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)