Mary Renault Quotes

Desire is the great equalizer.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

Desire is the key to motivation.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Without hope we live in desire.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

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

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom on those who are not free.

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.

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

expectation isn't the same as desire

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

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

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

Why don't we follow our yearning?

Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.