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Quotes About Desire

All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers.
~ Rumi
Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction of femininity.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.
~ Samuel Richardson
The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.
~ Habib Umar bin Hafiz
I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.
~ Cheryl Cole
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
~ John Berger
The world needs more love at first sight.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
~ Alfred Nobel
I wonder what the difference is between love and lust.
~ Rob Payne
My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.
~ Ewan McGregor
I don't want to unlove you because I love you.
~ Piolo Pascual
Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.
~ Eric Berne
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
~ John Berger
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
~ Aphra Behn
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
~ Marilyn Monroe
There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
~ David Ogden Stiers
Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
~ T. S. Eliot
You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!
~ Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension
~ Jacques Lacan
It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
~ Erwin McManus
Nothing is real but dreams and love.
~ Anna de Noailles
I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.
~ Kiersten White