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Quotes About Desire

Those who don't know how to make love, make war.
~ Atiq Rahimi
ceux qui ne savent pas faire l'amour, font la guerre.
~ Atiq Rahimi
There were vast spaces in which his spirit could reach out, touching this, possessing that, of a million crowding sensations, but gradually at first, then rapidly, he had found himself reaching out to ever-receding mirages, alone in a void. He
~ Attia Hosain
People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an illness. It's only when one realises that great administrators and leaders of men have all been at any rate slightly mad that one has a true understanding of history.
~ Auberon Waugh
Any hint of kindness had gone from his face. It was only hateful now, hard and hateful, and I wanted
~ Aubrey Rose
His fingers threaded through my hair, pulling me off of his cock. I licked the last of his juices off of my lips. When I opened my eyes, he was staring at me in wonder.
~ Aubrey Rose
That I could be a wolf, if I wanted to.
~ Aubrey Rose
If I had created myself, I would be taller, blond, and more well endowed, financially. I would have cast out spiders and bad-hair days. Therefore, and hence, I believe strongly in a Creator who not only gave me the gift, but the free will to create my own journey through life.
~ Audrey Conn
Why is love intensified by absence?
~ Audrey Niffenegger
I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.
~ Audrey Tautou
Love between a man and woman is war.
~ August Strindberg
I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
~ August Strindberg
i love music more than food!!!!!!!!!!
~ August Wilson
Troy: "Then when I saw that gal [Alberta]...she firmed up my backbone. And I got to thinking that if I tried...I just might be able to steal second.
~ August Wilson
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.
~ Auguste Rodin
I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.
~ Augusten Burroughs
You deserve to need me, not to have me.
~ Augusten Burroughs
And love? Well, if sex is sweet and death is bitter, love is both. Love will always and forever break your heart.
~ Augustus Hill
Only your determination and your strong desire will move you forward.
~ Aurora Berill
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves — are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.
~ Austin Osman Spare
Others believe in prayer . . . . have not all yet learnt, that to ask it to be denied? Let it be the root of your Gospel. Oh, ye who are living other peoples lives! Unless desire is subconscious, it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life. Then verily sleep is better than prayer. Quiescence is hidden desire, a form of "not asking"; by it the female obtains much from man.
~ Austin Osman Spare
Other than damnation I know no magic to satisfy your wishes; for ye believe one thing, desire another, speak unlike, act differently and obtain the living value.
~ Austin Osman Spare
Foul feeders! Slipped, are ye, on your own excrement? Parasites! Having made the world lousy, imagine ye are of significance to Heaven? Desiring to learn-think ye to escape hurt in the rape of your ignorance? For of what I put in, far more than innocence shall come out!
~ Austin Osman Spare
Know ye what ye want? What ye ask? Know ye virtue from maniacal muttering? Sin from folly? Desiring a teacher, who among ye are worthy to learn? Brutally shall I teach the gospel of soul-suicide, of contraception, not preservation and procreation. Fools! Ye have made vital the belief the Ego is eternal, fulfilling a purpose, not lost to you.
~ Austin Osman Spare