Desire Quotes
I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!
Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.
...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.
To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.
You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.
People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore.
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.
Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.
She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.
Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?
The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.
We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.
I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.
Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.
I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.
I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.
The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.
I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.
The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do