Quotes About Desire

It might be that you never want to get married, or it might be that you really, really do. Either is fine. What's not fine is not to be honest about what you want.

I so desperately wanted to be honest, and I so desperately wanted to love myself and accept myself for who I was.

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

I want to love. I want to enjoy life.

I don't feel that I have achieved anything, I just want people to love my songs.

I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I've got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

I need it to survive. But most specifically, McDonalds Big Mac's and McDoubles (with no pickles).

Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

When you go to a restaurant, sometimes you want to go to Heston Blumenthal's where you hear the sound of the sea while you're eating one tiny thing for a hundred quid. And then sometimes you just want toast. You just. Want. To eat. Toast. Sometimes you have to be okay with the fact that in terms of comedy, I'm just like, maybe, 'chips and a side.'

I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.

My go to - if I were on a desert island and there was one thing I could eat forever - I am obsessed with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Obsessed.

This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist. It's the thinking of a toddler.

Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me.

When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

I always wanted to go to Tokyo. Even when I was a kid, it was one destination I always wanted to go to.

We want to be deceived. There is bread again. There are jobs.

it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

The young] desire not merely to be understood, but to be understood by telepathy; not merely to be permitted to tell their troubles, but to be prevailed on to do so. The more care they take to conceal their feelings, the greater their disillusionment if one fails to discover them.

America was invented out of a desire for rebirth, for fresh starts. It was the place where a man could be the author of himself, reinventing himself as an aristocrat, but somehow these stories of renaissance kept ending in murder.