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Quotes About Desire

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
~ Catullus
I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.
~ Ciara
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
~ David Halberstam
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
~ Leonard Cohen
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
~ Mae West
Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.
~ Michael Xavier
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I'd love to go visit the 'Lord Of The Rings' set! That's something that we always want to do, but we don't ever have the time.
~ Mikey Way
I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
~ Paul Valery
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
~ Plato
Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.
~ Sandra Boynton
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
~ Sappho
I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
~ Sarah Waters
Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
~ Susan Rice
What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?
~ Sylvia Plath
Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
~ Vin Diesel
One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.
~ Waylon Jennings
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
~ Wilbur Smith
Love is a wonderful, terrible thing
~ William Shakespeare
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
~ Yasmine Bleeth
I'll be the in to your sane.
~ Gary Numan
Love is madness, and lust is poison.
~ George R. R. Martin
The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
~ Hafez