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Quotes About Desire

She wasn't looking her best; her hair was coming down, for she had shed hairpins as she'd run, and her face lacked powder and lipstick. She looked hot and tired and surprisingly happy. He thought that he had never seen anyone quite as beautiful, so absolutely necessary to his happiness. It wasn't the first time he had fallen in love, but he knew that this was the last.
~ Betty Neels
All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake
~ Beverly Cleary
Sheriff, I'm wanted everywhere—but not by the law.
~ Beverly Jenkins
He advanced, and before Teresa could react, he snatched her up against his chest, looked down into her furious eyes, and kissed her. Really kissed her. And he did it so well and so deliciously she forgot to sock him and melted right there on the spot.
~ Beverly Jenkins
I don't have the desire nor the patience to argue laws that only one race has to abide by.
~ Beverly Jenkins
Now darlin. Nothing I want more than to take you in the house and make love to you a hundred times, catch my breath, and start over again.
~ Beverly Jenkins
She wanted to be valued and loved, two things sorely missing from her life, and she didn't think it ludicrous or wrong for a woman her age to have such dreams.
~ Beverly Jenkins
Why do you want to marry me?" "Because I want this adventure we're on to continue. Because you fill my heart. Because I want you to have that garden.
~ Beverly Jenkins
You may want to. Ask yourself, do you want Spring because you love her or because of her potential to breed?
~ Beverly Jenkins
Katherine thought that no man had the right to be so devastatingly handsome, especially a man she was determined not to like. Feeling herself getting dizzy from just looking at him, she sensed that if she wasn't careful, she could lose her wits around him most any time.
~ Beverly Jenkins
Passion could lead to a place you'll regret.
~ Beverly Jenkins
Love me like he loves breathing.
~ Beverly Jenkins
mouth, savoring her response and how perfectly her behind fit his palms. He eased her into his hardness while he languidly and brazenly slid his hands over her hips. The thought of exploring the warmth she treasured between her thighs made him want to undress her fully and take
~ Beverly Jenkins
Best not to tiptoe around what you're yearning for, eyeing it, longing for it . . . or you'll miss your life ahead, it read.
~ Beverly Lewis
Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.
~ Beverly Lewis
Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing.
~ Beverly Sills
Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed
~ Bhagavad Gita
I desire neither victory nor pleasure nor kingdom, O Krishna. What is the use of the kingdom, or enjoyment, or even life?
~ Bhagavad Gita
Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
~ Bhagavad Gita
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
~ Bhagavad Gita
Hope is the name of this river, whose water is Desire, And Thirst the waves thereof.
~ Bhartrhari
I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.
~ Bhartrhari
She who is always in my thoughts prefers Another man, and does not think of me. Yet he seeks for another's love, not hers; And some poor girl is grieving for my sake. Why then, the devil take Both her and him and love and her and me.
~ Bhartrhari
We become decrepit with age, but not so Desire. Infirmity assails us, the skin wrinkles, The hair whitens, the body becomes crooked, Old age comes on. Desire alone grows younger every day.
~ bhartrhari ii