... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.
Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.
you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.
When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.
Walking beside you I want for nothing.
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.
As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]
You don't want me here, I don't wanna be here, so why am I here?
I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.
There is nothing to stop him from making coal mines safe except his lack of desire to do so …. J. A. Krug permitted these men to die by his inaction.
Interior Secretary J. A. Krug
Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.
The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.
Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.
The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.
He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.
