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Quotes About Desire

Where there is no wine there is no love.
~ Euripides
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
~ Euripides
Love distills desire upon the eyes,love brings bewitching grace into the heartof those he would destroy.I pray that love may never come to mewith murderous intent,in rhythms measureless and wild.Not fire nor stars have stronger boltsthan those of Aphrodite sentby the hand of Eros, Zeus's child.
~ Euripides
Would that I were under the cliffs, in the secrethiding-places of the rocks,that Zeus might change me to a winged bird.
~ Euripides
Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.
~ Euripides
Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetrywith which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord,I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below.I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grimKing's dog could not prevent me thenfrom carrying you up into the fields of light.
~ Euripides
God, these old men!How they pray for death! How heavythey find this life in the slow drag of days!And yet, when Death comes near them,You will not find one who will rise and walk with him, not one whose years are still a burden to him.
~ Euripides
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
~ Euripides
My love for you was greater than my wisdom.
~ Euripides
tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!
~ Euripides
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
~ Eva Green
Yet, my little Diary, I don't want to die, I still want to live .. I would wait
~ Eva Heyman
I've become immune to desire; I snip the danger of wanting in the bud.
~ Eva Hoffman
When you know what you want you usually get it.
~ Eva Ibbotson
If you want something enough you usually get it. But you have to take what goes with it.
~ Eva Ibbotson
If this is the 'Green Hell' of the Amazon, then hell is where I belong," said Maia.
~ Eva Ibbotson
There's people who make their living with animals," she said. "Naturalists they're called. You could be one of them." "From then on my father knew what he wanted to do," said Finn. "He wanted to get as far away from his family as it was possible to go, and live with animals." When you know what you want you usually get it.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Freiheit ist kein abstrakter Wert, sondern eine institutionalisierte Praxis, die Kategorien wie den Willen, die Wahl, das Begehren und die Gefühle prägt.
~ Eva Illouz
Lo que hace del amor una forma de locura es que no guarda ninguna conexión con lo real.
~ Eva Illouz
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
~ Evander Holyfield
Let me tell you something, baby." he said, his voice going hoarse. "Last night was the best fucking sex I've ever had in my life and it wasn't even really sex. You know why that was? Because it was with you.
~ Evangeline Anderson
Nick, if I can have you, I don't want or need anything or anybody else in the world. Call it whatever you want. Just say yes.
~ Evangeline Anderson
Just sayin' you got a hot nature, little girl. Quick to anger, quick to lust. Some people are just like that - hot-blooded.
~ Evangeline Anderson
I'm never going to let you," she whispered, holding herself stiff and still in his arms. "You might as well forget it and let me go right now." The arms around her tightened like iron bands and his voice was a low, possessive growl. "Never. You're mine, Olivia. The sooner you realize that the better.
~ Evangeline Anderson