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Quotes About Desire

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
~ Carlos Fuentes
I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.
~ Fanny Fern
One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.
~ Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
~ Petrarch
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
~ Honore de Balzac
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
~ Bela Lugosi
I have been in love already, but I don't think I have ever really loved somebody. Love is a very rare and beautiful thing, but it can also be bitter if the other one doesn't love you back.
~ Tom Kaulitz
I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.
~ Adele Exarchopoulos
There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.
~ Georgette Heyer
Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.
~ Helen Rowland
In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours.
~ Izumi Shikibu
To love, you have to admit your lack, and recognise that you need the other, that you miss him or her.
~ Jacques-Alain Miller
The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.
~ Mother Teresa
When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
~ Oscar Wilde
You have to talk about what you love, to bring what you love to you.
~ Rhonda Byrne
I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.
~ Walter Hilton
Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?
~ Cassandra Clare
I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
~ Catullus
Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.
~ Colin Farrell
I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.
~ Daniel Handler
it's like a squid in love with the sky.
~ Matthew Tobin Anderson
Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.
~ James Ellroy
I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.
~ John Keats