Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a site of othe….
There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is such a passionless fealty, so reticent a lov….
It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death..
We are not old unless we desire to be..
It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one's friends; but it is doubl….
When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you..
Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life..
True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already..
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private se….
The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery..
I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water ….
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?.
As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire..
The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone els….
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable..
What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and react….
Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as muc….
Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have litt….
From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing beca….
The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growi….
It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches..