Quotes About Desire

So Lorraine found herself, on her knees, surrounded by the most dangerous species in existence—human males with an erection to validate in a world that was only six feet wide.

Everything about Butch was like puffed air and cotton candy, but it thrilled her anyway whenever he straightened up to call to her through the tall grass.

There are a lot of Tater Tots in the world. I intend to stick around to eat my share.

We need Nellie and dry clothes. Dan glared resentfully at the retreating yaht in the distance. A grenade launcher would be nice, too.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.

It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.

But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more significant than it is. His sickness was the sickness of our age. We want so much not to be extinguished at the end that we will go to any length to make conjuror-tricks for one another simply to obscure the bitter, secret knowledge that it is our fate not to be.

To want power is corruption already.

Each affair began as though the creation of the world was to be reenacted, and each usually ended in less time than it took the Old Testament Creator to put up the sky. (62)

Zuviel kann man wohl drinken, Doch trinkt man nie genug.

You stand in a puddle when I would give you an ocean...*

I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

I'm not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating sandwiches with him. I want to be drinking with him in a bar. I'm tired and I don't want anymore pain. I want Maurice. I want ordinary corrupt human love. Dear God, you know I want to want Your pain, but I don't want it now. Take it away for a while and give it me another time.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one loves, one feels the need to use the same old ways one has always used. I know I am only beginning to love, but already I want to abandon everything, everybody but you: only fear and habit prevent me.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched. Lovers aren't reasonable, are they?