David Mitchell Quotes

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

Desire is important.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

Desire creates its own object.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Our visions begin with our desires.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and an aspirational leap, which is very good for writing.

… the truth in the power of the wish

Desire is the very essence of man.