Quotes About Desire

There are men whom one has an irresistible desire to tease: men whose virtues one doesn't share.

I want ordinary corrupt human love

At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

There was something about a fête which drew Arthur Rowe irresistibly

What was most evil in him needed her: it couldn't get along without goodness.

Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again.

The ambiguity was that attraction.

Loving God isn't any different from loving a man- or a child. It's wanting to be with Him, to be near Him.' He made a hopeless gesture with his hands. 'It's wanting to protect Him from yourself.

They don't want Communism.' 'They want enough rice,' I said. 'They don't want to be shot at. They want one day to be much the same as another. They don't want our white skins around telling them what they want.

They want enough rice,' I said. 'They don't want to be shot at. They want one day to be much the same as another. They don't want our white skins around telling them what they want.

You know, Pyle, women don't want virgins. I'm not sure we do, unless we are a pathological type.

I've reached the age when sex isn't the problem so much as old age and death. I wake up with these in mind and not a woman's body. I just don't want to be alone in my last decade, that's all. I wouldn't know what to think about all day long.

I have fallen in love once, it can be done again.

I wanted her mind, now I wanted to read her thoughts, but they were hidden away in a language I couldn't speak.

She was too beautiful to excite me with the idea of accessibility.

If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have to dream of her at night.

Belief dies away like desire for a woman

When you are miserable you envy other people's happiness.

There's nothing wrong in love. It happens. It doesn't much matter who with. We get caught up, we get kidnapped by mistake.

Looking at her over my whisky I thought how odd it was that felt no desire for her at all. It was as if quite suddenly after all the promiscuous years I had grown up. My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust for ever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

I'm still in love, Pyle, and I'm a wasting asset.

People can love without seeing each other, can't they, they love You all their lives without seeing You, and then he came in at the door, and he was alive, and I thought now the agony of being without him starts, and I wished he was safely back dead again under the door.

Sometimes I would wake with a sense of pain, sometimes with pleasure. If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have to dream of her at night.

Why doesn't hatred kill desire?