F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Moving Quotes, Desire Quotes

And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

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Man by Nature desires to know.

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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

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Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

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You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

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God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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I'm also combining my love of outdoors with my desire to help others.

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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

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