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Every human being was a victim of something, whether it was desire, addiction, ignorance, or faith.
— Lee Thomas
The word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ... wherever we look it is communion that we seek.
— Henri Nouwen
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
— Bertrand Russell
I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.
— Donna Goddard
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
His first step is to make temptation appear as a natural desire. It is something unequivocally physical and human.
— Ravi Zacharias
...the greatest gift one human can give to another is heartfelt time, where true togetherness is born from desire versus duty.
— Tony Dincau
The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time.
— Richard Siken
Love for me is the most sophisticated form that one can give for his desire, may be the only faith is remarkable on human being.
— Luiz Bolognesi
The human heart is a dark forest
— Tobias Wolff
Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.
— Miguel Syjuco
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
— Hildegard Of Bingen
Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.
— Velupillai Prabhakaran
It's human to want what we need, and it's human to desire what we don't need but find desirable.
— Fernando Pessoa
In that atrocious second I understood that desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual idea of hell and its horror.
— Octave Mirbeau
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire.
— Willa Cather
And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
— Richard Flanagan
Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
— Yash Chopra
The flawed human error is expecting someone else to build the world we desire, rather than creating it for ourselves.
— Shawn Stern
I think that this place can strip a person of human traits. It can make one desire nothing and hope for even less.
— Gemma Liviero
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
— Octave Mirbeau
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?
— John Kennedy Toole
even admirable human desires for love, for belonging, and for meaning can be manipulated by unscrupulous individuals to benefit themselves
— Noah Berlatsky
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
— Alan W. Watts
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
— Maurice Saatchi
Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.
— Julius Ceasar
Human nature is seldom at a loss to find or create an excuse for pursuing the predominant bias of inclination.
— Helen Craik
One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.
— Denise Di Novi
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
— Charles Edison
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others
— Bertrand Russell
We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.
— Simone Weil
The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress.
— David Blum
Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.
— Richard Sennett
Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
All of us, as human beings, seek to be respected. Even those who do not respect others have a deep seated desire to be respected.
— Abhishek Ratna
All human activity is prompted by desire.
— Bertrand Russell
Duke, almost the only human characteristic Mike seems to possess is an overwhelming desire to be liked.
— Robert A. Heinlein
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The human body is the best work of art.
— Jess C. Scott
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
— Samuel Johnson
It preyed on human desire and it paid off by sheer terror.
— John Grisham
In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.
— Richard Dawkins
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
— Richard H. Stoddard
What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
— Clarice Lispector
A Woman who let out a Sigh Outside a Mansion, should Never ask her Husband Why He Works Late
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
Fictionally speaking, desire is the sugar in human food.
— David Foster Wallace
They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. But it is not human to be without shame and without desire.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.
— Akira Yoshizawa
Within the nature of every person is a desire to feel appreciated, to feel needed, and to be loved.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Commas' nourishes your desires and full-stop kills.
— Chandan Sharma
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
— Francis Of Assisi
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
— Dalai Lama
The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
— Stephen Covey
I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
— Phyllis Bottome
desire is the sugar in human food.
— David Foster Wallace
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
— Nicole Kidman
Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You
— Robert A. Heinlein
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
— Michael Pollan
The height of human desire is what wins, whether it's on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.
— Woody Hayes
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -The Decoration of Houses
— Edith Wharton
Philanderers and swingers can see nothing beyond the needs of their genitals. Sexual craving is a part of our biology, but it is not who we are.
— Abhijit Naskar
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
— Jose Saramago
The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.
— Janet Burroway
He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.
— Henry Iba
No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.
— Bryant McGill
Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
— Bertrand Russell
Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.
— Bertrand Russell
Tricked by desire, mastered by love, rescued by beloved!What else you want to know about humans? — Saurabh Sharma
Human happiness stems from faith in God, from human association, and from a desire to live and let live.
— Ed Webster
Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .
— Sameh Elsayed
