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Quotes About Desire

All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
~ Hafez
It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.
~ Willie Dixon
Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.
~ Mae West
I lived for art, I lived for love
~ Giacomo Puccini
Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.
~ Ruth Graham
I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I'd like to know it's more than love at first sight
~ Etta James
Oh what's love got to do, got to do with it What's love but a second hand emotion What's love got to do, got to do with it Who needs a heart When a heart can be broken
~ Tina Turner
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
~ W. H. Auden
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Don't look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.
~ Rumi
I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job
~ Bobby Heenan
The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
~ Meister Eckhart
I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.
~ Sarah Silverman
It's the things we love most that destroy us.
~ Donald Sutherland
I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.
~ John Mayer
Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).
~ Georges Bataille
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
~ William Shakespeare, Othello
Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss.
~ Pablo Neruda
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?
~ Omar Khayyam
Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.
~ Ryan O'Neal
One should always be in love.
~ Oscar Wilde
Love can wait to give. Lust can't wait to get.
~ Jason Evert
one more creature dizzy with love
~ Charles Bukowski
Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
~ Daniel Defoe