Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
Mortimer Adler

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
Giacomo Leopardi

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Wallace Stevens

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
Swami Sivananda

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.
Hideki Tojo

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr

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

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
David Hume

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
Norman Angell

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln

Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.
Ralph W. Trine

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
Douglas Horton

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Robert South

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.
Edwin Louis Cole