Quotes About Desire

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful

Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.

UWhether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.

We make desire, not truth, the real clue to what's valuable. If we desire something, then it has value; if not, we despise and reject.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

O that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes! I would whip some with scorpions.

Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.

It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance.

I hate and I love, Catullus said, speaking of that Clodia Pulcher whose family caused so much difficulty in Rome, even in our time and long after her death. It is not enough; but what better way might we begin to discover that self which is never wholly pleased or displeased with what the world offers?

He stood looking at her for a long time. He felt a distant pity and reluctant friendship and familiar respect; and he felt also a weary sadness, for he knew that no longer could the sight of her bring upon him the agony of desire that he had once known, and knew that he would never again be moved as he had once been moved by her presence. The sadness lessened, and he covered her gently, turned out the light, and got in bed beside her.

He felt his inadequacy to the goal he had so recklessly chosen and felt the attraction of the world he had abandoned.

But he was not beyond it, he knew, and would never be. Beneath the numbness, the indifference, the removal, it was there, intense and steady; it had always been there. ...... It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the flesh; rather, it was a force that comprehend them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance. To a woman or to a poem, it said simply: Look! I am alive.

Stoner said to Finch, "I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax.

He felt at times that he was a kind of vegetable, and he longed for something—even pain—to pierce him, to bring him alive.

He felt at times that he was kind of a vegetable and he longed for something--even pain-- to pierce him, to bring him alive.

Nearly every afternoon, when his classes were over, he came to her apartment. They made love, and talked, and made love again, like children who did not think of tiring at their play. The spring days lengthened, and they looked forward to the summer.

How contrary an animal is man, who most treasures what he refuses or abandons! ("Augustus")

He wondered how many other people were lucky enough to have an entire universe of need satisfied by one blond-haired man.

Perhaps what should make you feel better is the thought I would kill you, that I'm obsessed with you enough to do that. I'd rather you not live than that you live apart from me.

The more he saw of this life the more he realised he just wanted what he'd always wanted: Nikolas bloody Mikkelsen.

Mine! You know you wanna be mine! ?I'm so fine. You're so fine. You deserve to be mine....

Rosie Tanguay could take the studies and shove them right up her skinny behind. Bev knew why she smoked. She smoked for the same reason she ate: it gave her something to look forward to. It was as simple as that.

People open bookstores because they want their souls back. (from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House)