“When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn.” WantFeelsI CanDesireSleepMorningWake UpHungryGoing To SleepReborn Author:Jean-Louis Barrault
“Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.” MenDoeHandsDesireSleepEndureBloodyNailsTormentPalmsConsumedTranceRevengeful Author:Ishmael
“Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.” IfsMenWellsDreamDesireSidesVoiceSleepYouthGratefulCalmBlissAcquireCrownsMarbleYouth Life Book:New poems Source: New poems
“To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.” LittlesDesireWishSleepSucceedAmbitionAccounts Author:Ovid
“I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more.” IfsStatesDesireTurnsOpportunityHoursSleepAnswersDoubtFateReturnMortalsConquerVainGatesWoeFoeFollow MeFeastingOpportunity Knocking Author:John James Ingalls
“[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.” HumansMayBookDesireSleepInformationReadyPleaseSpringBreastsNeglected Book:Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry Source: Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry
“So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.” IfsWantNeedsWellsSaidDesireWishSleepIssuesObjectsComfortMessagesHungerSatisfactionChainsCharmBreastsPermitMilkProvokingOrganismsAcheInfancySwallowingWailing Author:William H. Gass
“There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.” MenDoeDesireWealthSleepPovertyVirtueRichDoorsLimitsSatisfactionHappySettingSettingsMiserableBeing HappyBeggarRich ManTibetanMiserable People Author:Dalai Lama