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Quotes About Desire

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
~ Sigmund Freud
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
~ William Congreve
Love is a beautiful dream.
~ William Forsyth Sharpe
I can only tell you this-I would rather have taste than either love or money.
~ William Haines
My love is as a fever, longing still.
~ William Shakespeare
I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.
~ Zadie Smith
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.
~ Ba Jin
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I love it when you talk that sh-t.
~ Chris Brown
My heart is breaking for a little love
~ Christina Rossetti
If blue is dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.
~ Lisa Bonet
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
~ Lisa Bonet
You've got to love something enough to kill it.
~ Martin Scorsese
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do.
~ Max Lucado
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
~ Petrarch
He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
~ Plato
The more you love, the more you crave.
~ Nicole Kidman
What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.
~ Dwight L. Moody