deep-seated desires Quotes

I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex.

Desire has no history.

His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar.

Every time you have a desire, in a certain sense you have a goal, something you would like to be, do, or have. Some desires are merely passing fancies, but others stay with us and go deeper. Our desires and our goals give us direction and focus. They help point us down our path of action in our life.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.