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Quotes About Desire

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
~ Roland Barthes
The love withheld is always the love we long for most.
~ Susanna Tamaro
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
~ Tom Wilson
Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
~ Truman Capote
If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.
~ Joey Comeau
But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.
~ Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study
Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.
~ Jill Scott
I love being in a brothers band. I have no desire to move away from it at all.
~ Joe Jonas
Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.
~ Jon Richardson
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
~ Moliere
You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.
~ Richard Siken
Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?
~ Stephen King
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.
~ Thomas Brooks
Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.
~ William Shakespeare
If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.
~ Arundhati Roy
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.
~ Brian Setzer
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
~ D. H. Lawrence
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
~ Djuna Barnes
I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
~ Ed Belfour
I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.
~ Elizabeth Olsen
I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything.
~ Emilia Clarke
The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.
~ Esther Perel
I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.
~ Amitabh Bachchan