Sara Shepard Quotes

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.

Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can’t have something, you want it that much more.” Adrian: “Yes. It happens all the time.

There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.

Envy aims very high.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

You only want everything you don't have.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.