Quotes About Desire

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

In a brilliant lecture written in 1944, C. S. Lewis described the fatal British obsession with the 'inner ring', the belief that somewhere, just beyond reach, is an exclusive group holding real power and influence, which a certain sort of Englishman constantly aspires to find and join.

why do you think poseurs pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real, an almost magical zone of unselfed sensation, and they know their very desire for it disqualifies them. Consider that, the next time you cluck your tongue at some awful, grandiose fake. Dude just wants to feel.

I needed my daughter to disappear from my sight. If I could have had a wish, I would have wished her away.

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? How about this: I lost without the love. I've lost things I've never even had. A whole life.

How fickle is my young male heart as it avidly jumps from love to love

God, I love you so much I won't ever try to have sex again.

I mean we desperately wanted to be in love with something or other. We were lonely people. It seemed more sensible to fall in love with another person who also wanted to fall in love, than to love a chair or a cat or an idea.

It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love.

Hank would be free to pursue his passions

It's love, Bertie, but love unrequited. Although she is the apple of my eye, to her I am no more than a pip. I need

We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this; decide what you want.

The first step to getting the tings you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The indispensable first step to getting things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Since the dawn of time, nearly every man (and I'd wager to guess most women) has, at his most visceral level, secretly desired for one thing - to be standing triumphantly atop a heaping pile of his slain enemies, holding a gigantic axe aloft while some unbelievably attractive member of whatever gender he's attracted to desperately clutches his leg like it's the last life raft on the HMS Titanic.

You taught me the ways of desire, now it's takin' its toll You're the right kind of sinner, to release my inner fantasy

Avarice, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness.

The things which… are esteemed as the greatest good of all… can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta.

And when he dreams he does not want to write, he does not have the power to dream he wants to write; and when he dreams he wants to write, he does not have the power to dream he does not want to write.

No--no other man is cursed With such doubleness of eye, They can hunger, they can thirst, But they know for what and why.