Quotes About Desire

Everybody always wants to be a mermaid

Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good.

(D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.

Whatever the reason, I never could be bothered with any boy that did not stop my world. But Sam. He stopped it indeed.

The ache driving through her was terrible. Now she knew the awful truth of it. She could love these books with all the learning and wisdom they represented with everything that was in her, but they would never love her back. She needed to be held just now, and only a pair of human arms that moved at the impulse of a human heart could provide that. There were some needs that knowledge, however grand, however necessary, could never fill".

Ice cream cravings are not to be taken lightly.

The real thing was how I felt: like a root groping in darkness for water it knows is there, that it must have. Nall was that water.

I've always, always wanted to give birth. To kittens. I figure it would hurt less, and when you're done, you'd have kittens!

She was beautiful, too, with dark eyebrows and deep-set eyes outlined in black. Her image was like sharp glass cutting into me, I rushed to the surface to meet her with an urgency bordering on hysteria. Someone get gauze and bandages. I'm falling out. She's some dream I had. She's got part of me I didn't know I needed.

I get needy I need more than any person should need anything

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. - Now, Voyager

I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough again so it would be perfectly natural to be protected from the wind and the rain—and the world.

Folks keep forgetting that wishing don't make nothing so, but prayer sometimes do.

But you, Pearl, never liked anything once it was yours.

Much depends, of course, on the nature of the male-female relationship in the society. The psychological mechanism behind the assertion that rebirth takes place in initiation may in many cases be very simple: men's desire to detract from the importance of childbearing or to cancel their own obligations to women as the source of life.

There are many ways of dealing with a desire that is socially unacceptable or that for one reason or another the person himself cannot accept. One way is for the individual to dramatize it, act it out, and, through intense but in the long run only token satisfaction, try to rout it forever.

Aunque venga de un amante, una bañera, un osito de peluche, un dedo, una lengua o un vibrador, un orgasmo es un orgasmo.

Having an orgasm with a new fantasy is every bit as good as having sex with a new lover. Some times it's even hotter. People can be so unpredictable, but I can always count on myself.

The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.

St. Augustine referred to the restlessness in every human being that is satisfied only in God.