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Quotes About Desire

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.
~ Paul Gascoigne
I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.
~ Paulo Coelho
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
~ Petronius
If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.
~ Propertius
LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?
~ Oscar Wilde
Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
~ Oswald Chambers
A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
~ Raymond Chandler
In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.
~ Rene Dubos
If youre going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.
~ Rob James-Collier
I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.
~ Ronnie Spector
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?
~ Sam Keen
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.
~ Samuel Johnson
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
~ Samuel Johnson
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
~ Seneca the Younger
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
~ Seneca the Younger
Working for the Man seemed really good to me.
~ Shepard Smith
Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.
~ Sherry Argov
Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
~ Sydney J. Harris