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As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh-- To join blest spirits in celestial lands!

Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?

Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

Desire is the very essence of man.

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.