Willa Cather Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

  Willa Cather

  Desire, Looks, Want

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.256, Courier Corporation

• Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

  Willa Cather

  Inspirational, Life, Achievement

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.30, U of Nebraska Press

• The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

  Willa Cather

  People, Desire, World

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.5, U of Nebraska Press

• In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

  Willa Cather

  Desire, Quests, Might

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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