Quotes About Desire

Vanity is only to be satisfied by gold in floods.

In a lover the coarsest desire always shows itself as a burst of honest admiration.

Love is the union between natural craving and sentiment.

The married woman who is the most chaste may be also the most voluptuous.

Girls brought up as you were, in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined.

Though the comforts which all creatures desire, and for which he had so often longed, thus fell to his share, the Abbe Birotteau, like the rest of the world, found it difficult, even for a priest, to live without something to hanker for.

Like an eagle darting on his prey, he took her utterly to him, set her on his knees, and felt with an indescribable intoxication the voluptuous pressure of this girl, whose richly developed beauties softly enveloped him.

A man loves with more or less passion according to the number of cords which his pretty mistress binds to his heart.

How hungry one's heart gets!

What woman wants pity?... A man's sternness is to us our only pardon.

A woman's life begins with her first passion.

Thoughts of adultery do not take possession of the heart of a married woman all at once, like a shot from a pistol.

How mad a man must appear when desire renders him alternately angry and tender, insolent and abject, biting as an epigram and soothing as a madrigal!

To follow the impulse of love and feeling is the secret law of every woman's heart.

The lover submits to all the caprices of a woman; and as a man is never vile while he lies in the arms of his mistress, he will take the means to please her that a husband would recoil from.

If love is a child, passion is a man.

It is extremely rare for young men, when driven to suicide, to attempt it a second time if the first fails. When it doesn't cure life, it cures all desire for voluntary death.

I longed for a companion to the kingdom of Light; I wished to show you that morsel of mud, I find you bound to it.

If you have desired your object only for one day, your love perhaps will not last more than three nights.

We do not attach ourselves permanently to any possessions, excepting in proportion to the trouble, toil and longing which they have cost us.

To call a desire into being, to nourish it, to develop it, to bring it to full growth, to excite it, to satisfy it, is a complete poem of itself.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

Épouses nous sommes trahies. Amantes, nous sommes délaissées.

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender...