Quotes About Desire

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

I can't function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.