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Quotes About Desire

It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
~ Carly Rae Jepsen
If love is a drug, then it's the kind that should be prescribed.
~ Cassia Leo
Our joy ends where love of the world begins.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.
~ Charlotte Bronte
In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren't. Searching.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Not to love is to cease to live.
~ George Sand
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
~ Helen Rowland
You will not see that desire begets love, until it all flames into one concise and metallic blaze.
~ Hilda Doolittle
What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?
~ James K. A. Smith
I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.
~ Robert E. Howard
Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.
~ William Shakespeare
I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip
~ William Shakespeare
And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
~ Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.
~ Francesca Marciano, Casa Rossa
From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.
~ John Updike, Rabbit, Run
Perhaps a great love is never returned.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.
~ Andy Warhol
I would fall in love with you if you would beat these people out of me.
~ Buddy Wakefield
If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.
~ Ambrose of Optina
Must being in love always mean being in pain?
~ Alain de Botton
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.
~ M. F. K. Fisher