Desire Quotes

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

[Dream] I do not want a grape.[Desire] I could make you want one.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

When their eyes connected she tilted her head slightly…paused, and smiled. It was as if she needed to see him at a different angle to insure that her instant desire wasn’t a vanishing mirage

He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.

A wish becomes a greatest desire at the very moment when a person's belief in the seemingly impossible is stronger than any doubt.-Kevin McNamara

People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]

Nothing won't change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance.

When you want something badly enough it’s amazing what you’ll ignore.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, "The one who asked me to and meant it.

You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.(from The structure of desire and recognition)

put out the candles with your fire—I’m on fire

All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves.

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

I am a bed of sparks you breathe upon and kindle

I will not exorcise you—I’d miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair

To live in the shadow of another person...to desire to be adored as that person is....is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.

you are the mysterious fire at my finger tips

burnt by the sunof your mouth, I’m unable to speak or paint you with words

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

I think there are lovely sunsets in hell—and that’s where my desire for you is sending me

Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you

If you must chase make certain its with passion so you may reap a worthy reward.

Only those who are in-charge are tackled and criticized by others so criticism is something desirable and should not be resented.

Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will you regret the results or rejoice in them?

I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, "The world will never understand.

He once had lips as cold as stone and a heart that equally matched, but I had managed to warm him up and now all I could sense was his need for me.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

You wanted to show everyone you could write about the black heart of a killer. And all the while pretending you don't even have your own dark desires.

True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good.... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result.

The desire to touch her, to kiss her would end up with her walking away and him hurting again. So why the hell did he reach up and stroke her cheek with the back of his knuckle?

When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give.

I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.

I think I might have secretly wished for you to exist all my life but never knew how to admit it.

Unspoken words between you and I, Present in the eyes of knowing, Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty, I am yours.

The heart knows not of distance, space nor time. It meshes to the fabric of its desire & follows on an immeasurable continuum.

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed vil­lages, kid­napped princesses.

Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

He needs little who desires but little.

He says "You are my property" and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns.

Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness.