Desire Vs Reality Quotes

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

We can't tell our life from our wish

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.