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Quotes About Desire

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
~ Sappho
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
~ Ville Valo
I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
~ Saina Nehwal
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
~ Catherine Deneuve
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
~ Elijah Wood
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
~ Nancy Mitford
It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person.
~ Esther Perel
There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
~ John of the Cross
It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.
~ Ghada al-Samman
I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.
~ Henry Rollins
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
~ Robert Bly
Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
~ Margaret Fuller
A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.
~ David Niven
There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder
~ Aaron Hernandez
Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.
~ Alan Cohen
Love must wait; it must break one's bones.
~ James Salter
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
~ Samuel Butler
It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
~ Saul Bellow
Love transforms one into what one loves.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
When it comes to being a good lover, a guy has to ask a girl what she wants and be willing to give it to her.
~ Jenna Jameson
When you find what you love, you do it. That's it.
~ Elizabeth Holmes
Purity is not about following a list of rules so that you'll avoid hell. It's about wanting heaven for the person you love.
~ Jason Evert
Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?
~ Emperor Wu of Han
and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
~ James Joyce, Dubliners