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Quotes About Desire

shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.
~ Edna O'Brien
Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
~ Mario Puzo
Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.
~ William Shakespeare
Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.
~ Adolfo Bioy Casares
Love is the law, love under will.
~ Aleister Crowley
Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
~ Alexander Pope
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
~ Aristophanes
Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see.
~ Beyonce Knowles
Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something.
~ Carole Maso
Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.
~ Erich Fromm
I am so in love with you that there isn't anything else.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.
~ Georges Courteline
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
~ Roger Zelazny
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.
~ Rumi
Love cannot be described. It must be tasted.
~ Rumi
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I love being with you. When we're not together, i wish we were
~ Sylvia Day
The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.
~ Sylvia Plath
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
~ T. S. Eliot
The less my hope, the hotter my love
~ Terence
That's what poems are for, unlivable love.
~ Tess Gallagher
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Believe it or not, Id love to go to the moon.
~ Tiny Tim