Quotes About Desire

I set my heart on you today, Jesus, as my ultimate good.

Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.

Castles in the air—they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. —HENRIK IBSEN (1828–1906), The Master Builder

One is our tendency to give higher credences to propositions that we want to be true. This can show up at a very personal level, as what's known as self-serving bias:

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.

It feels strange to have spent much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does

I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.

Time and time again I can't please myself.

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

Princess." He smiled up at me, but it was weak. "If i'd known that this is what it would take to get you to hold me, I would've collapsed a long time ago.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.