Quotes About Desire

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.

Attraction is not a choice.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Love is the problem of an animal.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

How can something so wrong feel so right?

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Is not absence death to those who love?

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.