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Quotes About Desire

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.
~ C. S. Lewis
In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?
~ Cornelia Funke
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
~ Cyril Connolly
I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.
~ Ding Ling
Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.
~ Rumi
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.
~ Rumi
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
~ Saint Augustine
Sadly when I want someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright, I have no one. I miss you so much and I wish there was someone to love me when I am down.
~ Shane Johnson
... people become like what they love.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
Some call me a gangster of love
~ Steve Miller
Cause I shouldn't feel this way... Catch me I'm falling for you... and I don't know what to do.
~ Toni Gonzaga
It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
~ William Hazlitt
Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
~ William Penn
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.
~ William Wycherley
I'm what they call the love addict!
~ Zach Sobiech
Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.
~ Stephen King, Needful Things
I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
~ Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story
~ Hilary Duff
Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.
~ Julia Quinn, Minx
He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.
~ Lisa See, Peony in Love
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
~ Annie Dillard
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
~ Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
True love, is the love that seduces and will never allow itself to be seduced.
~ Paulo Coelho