Quotes About Desire

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.

I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, Ive wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

I dream about running all the time.

My heart can't stop beating faster, every time I hear your name or your laughter.

I do think it is possible to be in love with two people at the same time.

Her voice trembled. "I'm so glad you're mine. I won't ever let you go." This time, it was Kaleb who said, "I know," devastated at being so wanted. "You are just a little possessive."

My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

Don't you know what that is? It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.