#desire quote

[trashpandasquotes]

All day and all night my desire for you unwinds like a poisonous snake.

Samar Sen

[monarchastrology]

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho,

was a reading a comment today on a message board, a person mentioned that Desire originates in the Soul, not the ego... 

[furryalligator]

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

[thequoteuniverse]

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

[thebluebirdandherwritingdesk]

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Sylvia Plath

[costaricadventuretravel]

We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on the something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. I wonder sometimes whether with a slight adjustment of perspective it could be cherished as a sensation on its own terms, since it is as inherent to the human condition as blue is to distance? If you can look across the distance without wanting to close it up, if you can own your longing[...]? For something of this longing will, like the blue of distance, only be relocated, not assuaged, by acquisition and arrival, just as the mountains cease to be blue when you arrive among them…

A Field Guide To Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit

[ashaleerey]

Mamihlapinatapai (noun)

a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin.