Desiring Quotes
The ache of wanting something more.
These desiring quotes range from a historical wish to return home to family to modern reflections on chronic sadness, tied to broader themes in our Children quotes.
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring...
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I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically...
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be...
Ale Quotes
So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Best Quotes
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
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A couple of lines widen the idea of desiring into wishing for fairness or competence from others, showing how flexible longing can be as a topic. Pair this with our Best and Common Sense quotes.
