John Marston Quotes

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

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.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

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

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

Envy aims very high.

I always wanted more - more of everything.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

I always want more.

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

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.

The more you have, the more you want L'appetit vient en mangeant

Timing is irrelevant when it comes to desire.

I don't think I have ever been completely satisfied, which is probably the right way to say it. I always felt like I wanted more.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

There's often a natural inclination to want more.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

Much wants more and loses all.