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Quotes About Desire

Kissing Storm made her feel like a weed that had never known anything but drought and his lips were a summer rain, flooding her with a life energy that pushed her to grow.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.
~ Cynthia Ozick
In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
~ Cynthia Ozick
I'm at the stage in my life that real-estate apps turn me on.
~ Dani Levy
In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.
~ Dani Shapiro
I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!
~ Danielle Steel
I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.
~ David Remnick
Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.
~ Dean L. Larsen
Understand that if a deep desire lives in your heart, a dream that is part of your soul's fiber, a path exists to bring it to life.
~ Deepak Chopra
You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.
~ Demi Moore
Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.
~ Diana Gabaldon
All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
~ Diana Vreeland
I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
~ Donna Summer
I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.
~ Dorothy Osborne
Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place.
~ Dov Davidoff
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
~ Edith Wharton
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
~ Edmund Burke
When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.
~ Edward Furlong
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.
~ Edward Young
And I want out of this life on drugs.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
For all of my life I have needed more.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
~ Ella Maillart
Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
~ Emily Procter
I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
~ Erica Jong