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Quotes About Desire

For as I may be saved by God above, I never used discretion when in love But ever followed on my appetite, Whether the lad was short, long, black or white. Little I cared, if he was fond of me, How poor he was, or what his rank might be.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Who may be a real fool unless he is in love?
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
One does not, I think, kill oneself without a definite desire to do so. It is hardly ever an act to which a man must key himself up; it is a temptation which he must struggle against.
~ Geoffrey Household
So, when women universally complain about their slothfully mute boyfriends, we learn two things. First, women have a universal desire to enjoy receiving high levels of verbal courtship effort. Second, high levels of verbal courtship effort are so costly that men have evolved to produce them only when they are necessary for initiating or reviving sexual relationships.
~ Geoffrey Miller
Ich kenne keinen Absatz, keine Veränderung. Ich bin immer nur ein; ein ununterbrochenes Sehnen und Fassen, eine Glut, ein Strom.
~ Georg Buchner
We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
i want to implode— i want to (un)become
~ George Abraham
Know your product. Know your customer. And never, ever, underestimate the power of greed.
~ George Anastasia
I want to have my throat slashed while violating the girl to whom I will have been able to say: you are the night.
~ George Bataille
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.
~ George Bernard Shaw
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
~ George Bernard Shaw
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
~ George Bernard Shaw
She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...
~ George Bernard Shaw
We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.
~ George Bernard Shaw
She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You don't get tired of muffins. But you don't find inspiration in them
~ George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
~ George Bernard Shaw