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Quotes About Desire

is a desire for what one dreads, a sympathetic antipathy. Anxiety is an alien power which lays hold of an individual, and yet one cannot tear oneself away, nor has a will to do so; for one fears, but what one fears one desires. Anxiety then makes the individual impotent.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death
~ Georges Bataille
He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
Far worse it is, To lose than never to have tasted bliss.
~ Giovanni Battista Guarini
I don't want a simple life. I want an extraordinary continuous adventure. That's the problem. I just want more. I want it all & everything in-between.
~ Heather Dorff
I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.
~ Henry Rollins
I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.
~ Holt McCallany
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
~ Hortense Calisher
When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.
~ Ilka Chase
Thir must be less tae life than this
~ Irvine Welsh
"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
~ Jack Kerouac
Life is given us as a passion.
~ Jacques Barzun
I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.
~ James Joyce
In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.
~ Jane Alison
Life is short. But desire, desire is long.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
~ Janet Jackson
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.
~ Jean Ingelow
There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.
~ Jess C Scott
At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?
~ Jess Walter
Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.
~ Jewel
One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.
~ Jim Rohn
Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?
~ Joan Collins
I need someone who always wants more out of life. Like me - I'm just that way.
~ Joan Smalls
Desire is one of the main drivers in creating your reality; utilise desire by focusing it upon the things you want to achieve in life.
~ Steven Redhead