Quotes About Desire

But the pursuit of wealth would not inspire passion.

Please, Lord, answer this one small prayer. Not just for me, but for Cara. Help me play with my child once more before I die. Bring my Cara home.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

Tonight he would do anything in the world for her. Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.

Why is it, she asked, snuggling closer, that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?

Would she be able to bear never seeing him again? Never in this life?

It is a common failing of men. They see someone they consider beautiful and desirable and eligible, and they imagine that they love her. In fact, though, they love themselves reflected in her eyes.

You are my own. You are my own. He had not meant the words in that way. He had been talking strictly about possession. But oh, the longing for his love was an unbearably painful ache in her.

She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of her life to do it.

Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt.

But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams.

The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?

You are not by any manner of means the sort of woman I am in search of as a wife, and I am in a totally different universe from the husband you hope to find. But I feel a powerful urge to kiss you, for all that.

You will find that wanting, even loving, is not enough.

What do you not have, Lord Hardford?" she asked. "For no one has everything, you know, or even nearly everything.

If you want something, my dearest love, the duke had once told her, you will never get it. Want is a timid, abject word. It implies that you know you will be left wanting, that you know you do not deserve the object of your desire but can only hope for a miracle. You must expect that object instead, and it will be yours. There is no such thing as a miracle.

I want you, my dear. I do believe I have fallen in love with you. What a nasty ailment that may prove to be! I have not suffered from it before. Is it deadly, do you suppose? Is it a terminal illness?

She wanted it to last forever. She wanted him in her. She wanted release. She could not endure much longer without release. But not yet. Not yet. She wanted the wanting him to go on forever. She did not want thought or sanity or the cold and cruel world to come back. She wanted this to go on forever.

between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and

Se muoio domani, cosa abbastanza probabile, morirò sapendo che la mia missione in questo mondo è stata assolta, e bene. Sono morti per mano mia. Non ho altre speranze o desideri.

Tan peligroso es quitarle su cachorro a un tigre como arrebatarle a una mujer una ilusión».

Now, Jack, is there anything you would like? The youth pondered for a moment. I'd like a shillin', said he. Nothing you would like better? I'd like two shillin' better, the prodigy answered after some thought.

I crave for mental exaltation.

there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves...