Citations:desires


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now, according to the strength or weakness of his faith in his Saviour, so is his joy and peace, so is his love to holiness, so are his desires to know him more, and also to serve him in this world.
 * Thus I say, being hot for heaven, by virtue only of the sense and fear of the torments of hell, as their sense of hell and the fears of damnation chills and cools, so their desires for heaven and salvation cool also.
 * So then it comes to pass, that when their guilt and fear is gone, their desires for heaven and happiness die, and they return to their course again.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.
 * I expressed a wish to visit England, but concealing the true reasons of this request, I clothed my desires under a guise which excited no suspicion, while I urged my desire with an earnestness that easily induced my father to comply.
 * I know not by what chain of thought the idea presented itself, but it instantly darted into my mind that the murderer had come to mock at my misery and taunt me with the death of Clerval, as a new incitement for me to comply with his hellish desires.