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“To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.”

Thinking Want Art Together Desire Artist Forever Integrity Fame Live Forever Intangible Being Famous Desire To Live

Author:Damien Hirst

“It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.”

Ifs Spiritual Desire Waiting Forever Study Acceptance Buddhism Gods Will Rising Frustration Rise Above Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.”

Desire Lost Gone Forever Trump Yearning

Book:Thirteen Moons: A Novel

Source: Thirteen Moons: A Novel

“The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.”

World Humans Facts Desire Human Beings Forever Achieve Emotional Despair Intellectual Perfection Species Strive Denial Imperfection Doomed Saddest Ardent

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.”

“To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be.”

Thinking Should Art Desire Enjoy Voice Forever Drink Ears Radio Newspapers Awake Demon Staying Los Angeles Suggestions Whispering Billboards Hypnotic

Book:Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses

Source: Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses

“I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.”

Desire Forever Vampire Appeals Live Forever

Author:Bentley Little

“The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.”

Way Humans Heart Earth Law Desire Secret Forever Wall Police Prison Human Heart Secret Police Prison Walls Martial Law

Author:George W. Bush

“Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.”

Mean Desire Forever Familiar Chiefs Immortality Submit Transforming Freeze Neurosis Rigidity Hold Fast Estrangement Stasis

Book:What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

Source: What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

“Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.”

Men Past Young Desire Girl Forever Regret Fairs Young Man Old Man Ecstasy Now And Then Desirable Stirring Slender Ignoble

Author:Anatole France

“When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is known. I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever”

Mean Body Desire Universe Consciousness Known Forever Ocean Entity Totality Nucleus

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.”

Ifs Want Humans Would Be Desire Gone Forever Human Life Enjoyment Dependent Live Forever Frailty

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards