Denis Diderot Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

  Denis Diderot

  Desire, Facts, Said

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

• You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals… What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained.

  Denis Diderot

  Wise, Years, Forever

• To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

  Denis Diderot

  Love, Passion, Order

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

• I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

  Denis Diderot

  Vanity, Desire, Given

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