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Quotes About Desire

The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
~ John Steinbeck
I am a lover for sure. I love to be loved.
~ Julio Iglesias
In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.
~ Rumi
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
I love you still, Against my will.
~ Sarah Kane
What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
~ Barbara Sher
Free love is too expensive.
~ Bernadette Devlin
The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.
~ Ellen Hopkins
My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.
~ Susane Colasanti
The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love
~ Amit Abraham
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
~ Anacreon
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.
~ Calvin Miller
When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love.
~ Dane Cook
You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.
~ Daniel Pennac
As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.
~ George Plimpton
it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible
~ Gregory Corso
Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
~ Jean Anouilh
She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
~ Ken Follett
My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make
~ Lionel Richie
One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'
~ Peggy Lee
Love wants everything without condition, love has no law.
~ Pierre de Ronsard
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?
~ Samuel Beckett