Quotes About Desire

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

I was twenty years old and I hungered after something but I did not know what. Not love, I think. Not even a sense of belonging. My hunger was not for anything in the future or even in the present. It was for something past, and I did not know what it was.

Everybody's a dreamer.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

God planted in men a strong desire also of propagating their kind, and continuing themselves in their posterity; and this gives children a title to share in the property of their parents, and a right to inherit their possessions.

Nature, I confess, has put into man a desire of happiness and an aversion to misery: these indeed are innate practical principles which (as practical principles ought) DO continue constantly to operate and influence all our actions without ceasing: these may be observed in all persons and all ages, steady and universal; but these are INCLINATIONS OF THE APPETITE to good, not impressions of truth on the understanding.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweet tooth in his head.

Cupid and my Campaspe playedAt cards for kisses: Cupid paid.

Think nothing of it," I said. "We've all wanted to kill Clodius from time to time.

One forced to live in surroundings that might have been devised by Plato must seek relief and an outlet for the human urges despised by philosophers. Wickedness and debauchery may not be the only answers, but they are certainly the ones with the widest appeal.

I seek a father who most need a son.

Oh Ellie, doesn't it make your mouth water?" "It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth.

I'd have scratched her eyes out and sucked the holes.

Beauty you lifted up my sleeping eye And filled my heart with longing with a look.

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.

Baby you're the only light I ever saw. I make the most of all the sadness, you be a bitch because you can. You try to hit me just to hurt me so you leave me feeling dirty 'cause you can't understand. We're going down and you could see it to....we're slow dancing in a burning room!!!

I want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe. There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me.

You love who you love, who you love

And it's hard for me to take a stand When I would take her anyway I can.

I only wish I had drunk more champagne.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

As men obsessed with the idea that all knowledge lies within a woman's body, but having entered it to find themselves as ignorant as before, they are driven towards all women again and again: in childish hope that somehow the next time they will find the treasure, and then the equally childish desire for revenge since it cannot be found, that knife in the unfathomable entrails; and they grow full of hatred.