Michael K. Powell Quotes

It's so much better to desire than to have.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

Memory is satisfied desire.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be the one who got off first. When we kissed, he always pulled away first. He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more....[It was] excruciating and wonderful. It feels good to want something that bad. I thought about him the way you think about dinner when you haven't eaten for a day and a half. Like you'd sell your soul for it.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.