Quotes About Desire

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together.

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.

We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.

It does not cost anything to dream. Spend your time enjoying your big dreams.

God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been "up to his room" a long time ago.

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.