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Quotes About Desire

We love only what we do not wholly possess.
~ Marcel Proust
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
~ Philip Yancey
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.
~ Ovid
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.
~ Robert Breault
I'm dominated by Love, By my passion of love for Love
~ Rumi
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
~ Stephen Sondheim
I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.
~ Sylvia Day
The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender.
~ Tibullus
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
~ W. H. Davies
It seems like everywhere I go I can't get real love.
~ Lil' Kim
Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel
~ Lord Byron
Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!
~ Louis Untermeyer
I'm searching for a real love.
~ Mary J. Blige
I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.
~ Matthew Gray Gubler
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
~ Moliere
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
~ Philip Neri
No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.
~ Olga Kurylenko
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
~ Heywood Broun
And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.
~ John Adams
I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
~ John Bunyan
And all I do is look into your eyes For that special touch of paradise
~ John Farnham
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
~ Khalil Gibran
Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
~ Lauren Kate