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Quotes About Desire

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart
~ Theophile Gautier
The human heart is always drawn by love.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
O excellent! I love long life better than figs.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is the funeral of hearts.
~ Ville Valo
As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.
~ Osamu Dazai
People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy!
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
~ Sitting Bull
What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Not loving is but a long dying.
~ Emperor Wu of Han
The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life.
~ Michael Neill
Love is an angel disguised as lust.
~ Patti Smith
Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
~ Plato
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
~ Stendhal
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
~ Remy de Gourmont
I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.
~ Shaun White
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you make love with the divine now, in the next lifeyou will have the face of satisfied desire.
~ Kabir
The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
~ Oscar Wilde
As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.
~ Rajneesh
Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's like on steroids. It's lust with ethics.
~ Tammara Webber